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THE 

WORLD'S 
HOROSCOPE 

OR 

LIFE 

ON AN 

UPPER PLANE 



BY 



JENNIE HENRY 
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COPYRIGHTED 1907 
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JENNIE HENRY 

AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER 
AMARILLO, TEXAS. 

All rights reserved. 
Published in July 1907. 



PREFACE 

In presenting this work to the general public 
the author has covered a field of the most in- 
tense human interest, one that has engaged the 
attention, thought and deep study of all ages. 
In history we find many brilliant minds devoted 
to this most fascinating study. From this vast 
storehouse the author has been guided in her re- 
search for data bearing on the present work. 

This volume covers, not only the oft har- 
rowed ground but new and hitherto unexplored 
regions. We are carried into the swift current 
of a higher and better thought, are borne along 
with the author's magnificent flow of language 
into the realms of what is to many, an unknown 
world. The beauties of creation and the infinite 
love and compassion of a God of love, beauty 
and all embracing tenderness is unfolded to 
our eyes. That the author is inspired we can 
not doubt after a perusal of this work. That 
she has put her best efforts into expressing the 



thoughts conveyed by a higher intelligence we 
are convinced. That no one can read without 
benefit, we are fully persuaded, That no one 
who reads with even the most indifferent motive 
will fail to grasp at least a part of the author's 
love for "every good and perfect thing" is a 
self evident fact. The author is launching this 
her first effort on the uncertain sea of public 
approval, but we feel that to her it will prove 
the open port of appreciation. 

The subject is so replete with human in- 
terest, and fills so perfectly the craving for a 
knowledge of that which lies behind the vail 
that we believe a careful perusal of the follow- 
ing pages will prove not only profitable, in that 
it will afford a pleasant recreation, but will 
convey a lasting benefit as well. 

''Just on the farther bound of sense, 
Unproved by outward evidence 
But known by deep influence, 
Which through our grosser clay doth shine, 
With light un waning and divine 
Beyond where highest thoughts can fly 
Stretcheth the world of mystery, 
One step beyond life's workday things, 
One more beat of the souls broad wings/ ' 

Mittie Morton Morgan. 



To the all wise God, He who is our Creator and the 
-Giver of every good and perfect gift, and to every creature 
that He has made in His image and likeness, this work is 
dedicated. 

Respectfully, 

The Author 



"I saw a gate: a harsh voice spake and said, 
"This is the gate of Life;" above was writ, 
"Leave hope behind, all ye who enter it;" 
Then shrank my heart within itself for dread; 
But, softer than the summer rain shed, 
Words dropt upon my soul, and they did say, 
"Fear nothing, Faith shall save thee, watch 

and pray!" 
So, without fear I lifted up my head, 
And lo! that writing was not, one fair word 
Was carven in its stead, and it was "Love." 
Then rained once more those sweet tones from 

above 
With healing on their wings: I humbly heard, 
"I am the Life, ask and it shall be given! 
lam the way, by me ye enter Heaven!" 



THE 

MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES 



ALBERTUS MAGNUS, THE SECOND 



THE BOOK OF NATURE OPENED 



You, a being of great and far reaching power 
and the lawful and legitimate heir to every creat- 
ed good. 

Your own architect and the means for grati- 
fying every righteous wish at hand. 

One plain receipt, both Sympathetic and 
Natural. 

Poverty, ugliness, disease, death and all ab- 
normal conditions whatsoever a crime against 
God and nature. 

The knowledge of ways and means again sent 



forth, verified and approved by the great, good 
and learned of all lands and ages. 

A plain, easily understood and perfectly appli- 
cable law of the universe governing the supply 
and distribution of every created good and reach- 
ing its pearly and illimitable arms into the realms 
of the immortal, within your reach. 

NO MAGIC, NO BLACK ART. 

Natural law, in natural places. Life, love, 

HEALTH, BEAUTY, PROSPERITY AND HAPPINESS 

abundant here and hereafter— Your birthright 
and inheritance. 

Reach forth your hand. 

Know your Creator. Know yourself and 
apply the good that lives abundant for you. 



CHAPTER I. 

"I have awakened to the truth and I am 

resolved to accomplish my purpose.' ' 

It is not the purpose of the author of this 
work to write a religious volume, formulate and 
seek to set up a new religion, or attempt to criti- 
cize or tear down the mighty fabric of the old 
ones. 

Each and every individual has ideas and 
views, thoughts, feelings, imaginations and super- 
stitions peculiar and characteristic of themselves 
alone, with which we have no wish to interfere 
or come in contact. 

They study, ponder, weigh, compare, judge 
and pronounce sentence irrespective of all other 
judgments and sentences, past all recall or 
remedy on all matters pertaining to the mysteri- 
ous and unknown, such as the why and where- 
fore, the whence and whither, the cause and ef- 



10 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

feet, the natural and super-natural, the human 
and divine, in a way, to say the least, that is en- 
tirely satisfactory to themselves, if not so abso- 
lutely certain or convincing to others. 

Neither is it our purpose to attempt to explain 
(at least to the satisfaction of everybody) the phe- 
nomenon of any uncommon or unusual occurence, 
or any of those manifestations of the wonderful or 
sublime that take place around us almost continu- 
ally and which at most are so much a matter of 
conjecture and speculation only. 

Throughout all nature, animate and inanimate, 
organic and inorganic, we see and believe that 
both the positive and negative exist and prevail 
and that either one or the other, oftentimes both, 
as warring or contending factions are continually 
in operation and evidence. 

Life, goodness, beauty, captivation, allure- 
ment, encouragement, inspiration, restoration and 
recompense move side by side with evil, hatred, 
wickedness and despair, ugliness and misery, 
failure, disease and death, and we know not 
the whyfore. 

The human family has not passed the first 
milestone on the journey to knowledge along these 
lines and will perhaps grope on in erroneous imag- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 11 

Inations, conjectures and speculations only to the 
end of the chapter. 

But we conceive that all matter is only the 
outward and visible sign of an unseen but all per- 
vading inward spiritual force and all good things 
temporal, the reflection and promise of better 
things eternal, 

That the omnipotent love, power, goodness 
and purity; or that place, state or being called God, 
or the Center of the Universe, is the entire visible 
and invisible, undivided and inseparable, indes- 
tructable, unbounded and illimitable fabric of all 
existences known and unknown. 

That the very essence of God lives and has its 
being, not as one who possesed of body, parts, sex 
andgender,is under the necessity of locality or place 
of residence or abode; but as a warm, intelligent, 
loving, productive and creative presence or princi- 
ple in and around each and all, occupying, prevad- 
ing and filling immensity and every creature or 
thing therein, with its mighty attributes which is 
the sum total of all conceptions, the first and last 
of all qualities and perfections. 

That it breathes from the throat of the night- 
engaleand rolls in to^sj^Ji^nder ^or^he^might^ 
bosom of the hurricane and tornado ^speaks in the 



12 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

heart of the tiny rose bud which responds to its 
presence, and quivers and swells to bursting with 
inspiration and promise; but best of all trembles 
and thrills with lightning flash and swiftness 
along every fibre of man's being with the knowl- 
edge of something that is better than inspiration 
or promise— the certainty that if he only will man 
was not born to die. 

That this great warm, throbbing, pulsating, 
galvanic and magnetic heart, mind and soul of di- 
vinity will live and work under proper conditions 
illimited, unbounded and eternally in you, in 
me, and in each and every individual, atom or 
molecule of all creations in worlds without end. 

Also that the human is a part of the divine in 
the broadest, fullest sense of the word, and there- 
fore, if it wills a creature by far more power fu 
in its operations and possibilities than it is gener- 
ally conceded to be. 

In other words that the human is the 
head, principal and most powerful of all the 
mighty organs through which' Deity operates and 
becomes manifest, and that if continuously and 
properly trained and cultivated can in that time, 
which also merges into and becomes a part of 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 13 

eternity, reach a state of being only a degree less 
mighty than that of Deity itself. 

That the Father does not close us off from any 
earthly perfection, neither grudge us the promise 
in flowers here, of the fruits that grow sublime 
and eternal for us on the other shore. 

That there is no loss, no disease, no death, in 
fact no evil, but what is reflection or emination 
from the mind of man only, the same as the 
shadow of even a perfect image may for want 
of proper attitude or light be thrown against 
the wall in a frightful or grotesque form very un- 
like its possibly good looking or handsome original. 

For the conscious, living soul and spirit of 
the universe makes all things fruitful and impress- 
es and seals upon them the celestial and creative 
qualities. He says that we shall be the creators 
of our own destiny and shall have just what we 
build here and hereafter. That by virtue of the pro- 
cess of propagation brought about by means of alli- 
gation, the sun moon and stars, the land and the 
waters and all contained therein, every rock and 
gem, every tree, plant, flower and herb, every 
creeping, crawling thing and every creature or 
beast of the field, four footed or otherwise, every 
thought, feeling, wish, instinct, desire or passion 



14 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

has its pro-creative powers and will perpetuate and 
eternalize its kind. 

Now it can really make little, if any, difference 
with us today whether or not God was originally 
the direct or indirect author and maker of evil. 
From either standpoint the fact remains that Adam 
as a child, a later and therefore more imperfect 
edition of the God-likeness or principle— heir to all 
of the attributes, qualities and characteristics of 
the head, or father, was yet lacking in the 
wisdom which would teach him the consequences 
to he expected from the harboring of or commis- 
sion of wilful wrong. That he had been told, 'In 
the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely 
die," had not come home with sufficient and living 
force to his understanding and consciousness. As 
a babe in the cradle he had not yet learned the pow- 
ers and capabilities with which he was endowed for 
the I and Thou of his existence had not yet reached 
its majority— his understanding. 

He did not know that he was himself a crea- 
tor and that even thought took form, shape and 
cognizance of things, and when an evil thought or 
desire did creep along the horizon of his fancy or 
vision he hugged it with fondness to an ignorant 
and unsophisticated heart until in time it became 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 15 

the serpent that growing into giant proportions 
afterward turned him and all subsequent mankind 
from the primitive Eden state, and well nigh 
eternally lost him ability to even comprehend or 
aspire to better things. 

He did not know that thought and will is the 
parent head or source from which all other things 
spring and that to will to do wrong is to give 
shape, form, size and quality to the myriads of 
devils © who rule and govern our lives; or equally 
that to will to do right is to build step by step, 
rung by rung, the magic ladder that eventually 
leads to perfection and life everlasting. He did 
not know that heaven or its reverse is daily and 
hourly built within the tabernacle or portals of our 
own beings and that there is no word, no promise 
to any but "Who-soever-will." 

Hence it was through ignorance, designed or 
otherwise we may say that man became practically 
the author and maker of the serpent in Eden, and 
its myriads of progeny or offspring through-out all 
the subsequent ages of the world's history; for we 

© The author of this work has been repeatedly asked if 
she believed in a personal devil, to which she has invariably 
answered yes, but not in the horned, hoofed and tailed va- 
riety taught from orthodox pulpits. 



16 TH EWORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

cannot think without that thought becoming a 
thing, that is in its turn acted upon by other 
thoughts and things, will in time rebound upon 
ourselves and others producing or creating good 
or evil according to its nature and character— the 
order, quality, condition or attitude of the mind 
that gave it birth and the alligations made in the 
surrounding ether while in the embryonic or pro- 
pagating stage of its development. If it is of the 
order known as good, it will seek good and become 
the author of more good: if of evil it will seek evil 
and become the author and maker of more evil, 
for it seems conclusive that we are surrounded by 
an atmosphere of the accumulated thought, wish 
and will of ourselves and others, and that mind, 
individual and universal controls and dominates 
all things. 

That no man or thing lives unto itself alone: 
but all things have their attractions and counter- 
attractions, their sympathies and antipathies and 
that sooner or later the proper connections or alli- 
gations will be made each with its affinity or com- 
plement and the materializations will be complete. 
For all things both good and bad gravitate to and 
form common centers of sustenance and life, 
being drawn or repelled, according to respective 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 17 

and individual composition nature and environ- 
ment, character or quality of life with which en- 
dowed and the reception with which met or union 
formed on arrival, for— like attracts like, and all 
things come home to welcome and caress. 

Even the stars and planets of the firmament 
have a deep and vital interest in and connection 
with the birth life and death of e\rery living hu- 
man creature or thing, and the fate of individuals 
and the rise and fall of mighty empires and nations 
stand plainly written and manifest by means of 
universal sympathy and alligation across the 
starry scroll of the midnight heavens. 

As the hands of the clock point to the hour of 
the day, so the finger of fate inscribes and writes 
with unerring accuracy the signs of the times- 
prophecy and fulfilment on the face of all things 
whatsoever, being guided, governed, controlled 
and directed by the mighty force or spirit, of uni- 
versal want, sympathy and necessity, and none 
can dare to measure or tell the depth or extent of 
responsibility divine, or of human influence indi- 
vidually and collectively in thus marking the path 
way and forming and shaping the character and 
destiny of all things. 



18 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

For who dares affirm that to meditate and 
think with pleasure and relish on any given 
crime with its attendent chain of horrors, 
miseries, degradations and heartaches is not 
to send abroad into the surrounding elements 
the trustworthy spies and scouts who looking out 
for and coming by means of mutual sympathy and 
attraction into contact and alligation with their 
complements, the kindred minds, tools and con- 
ditions that make materialization possible is not, 
to at least, in an abstract sense of the word, 
become to all practical intents and purposes the 
author and maker of the crime itself. Or that the 
reverse is not also true and that righteous, uplift- 
ing and ennobling thought, wish and will is not 
by virtue of the same means and processes the 
living and easily impregnated germ or seed from 
which spring and grow in proportionate abundance 
and profusion all the benefits, blessings and 
pleasures that have ever yet blessed the world of 
mankind or any part or parcel thereof. 



" Then let your secret thoughts be fair- 
They have a vital part, and share 
In shaping words and moulding fate; 
God's system is so intricate." 



CHAPTER II. 

"Know ye not that I must be 
about my Father's business.'' 

And now, without further prefacing or here 
going into lengthy discussion or dissertation on 
the elements necessary to constitute what is 
called the miraculous, how natural law must 
first become inactive, inert, in fact be set entirely 
aside and a new order of things instituted 
and established, we will only say that to the 
minds of many of the great and learned of all 
lands and ages it has never been satisfactorily 
proven that such an occurrence or event as a 
miracle ever did happen, or that there ever was a 
day or time in all the ages of the world's history 
in which such an event or occurrence was more 
possible than at any other day or time, all things 
being equal. 

Such persons believe, and with seeming jus- 
tice and reason, that natural law only has ruled 
and governed all things celestial and terrestial 



20 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

since the foundations, having been instituted, 
set in operation and later held to its post of un- 
swerving duty from which there is no appeal, 
alteration, variableness or suspension by the om- 
nipotent fiat, that first called all things seen and 
unseen into existence. 

That a greater number of uncommon, unusual 
and perhaps hitherto unknown and unheard of 
circumstances and events took place during the 
life of Jesus than at any other period we con- 
ceive to be true. But we likewise accept as 
fundamental truth, the axiom, that like cause 
will always and at all times produce a like 
effect, and the divinity of Jesus in that broad, un- 
exceptional and unqualified sense of the term in 
which it is so generally accepted and understood to 
mean and to be, does not of necessity follow, be- 
cause he is acknowledged and conceded to have 
been the greatest magician, as well as the greatest 
and best man that ever lived, and we do not feel 
it our province or to be incumbent upon us to es- 
tablish, prove or substantiate either the pro or con 
on this subject when we affirm that the seemingly- 
wonderful and miraculous still happen, even in this 
the twentieth century of the world's history. 

If Jesus ever existed at all, possessing in his 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 21 

person the depth or degree of divinity with which 
he is accredited and which w T e do not doubt, that 
he knew and understood the component parts and 
qualities of every element in nature, was familiar 
with and master of every underlying and funda- 
mental law governing creation is undoubtedly true. 
He knew all causes and effects and how to set in 
operation the positive and negative poles of all 
compositions and elements. 

He knew that every element in nature or creat- 
ure or thing in existence had its affinity, its com- 
plement, correspondent and co-equal, its maker, 
aider, helper, and within certain limitations its per- 
fector and perpetuator; and that the affinity or 
kinship that had existed independent from the first, 
bringing all things material and immaterial into 
existence by its omnipotent power and love, 
was still sublimely loving, unlimitedly powerful 
and eternally creative. 

That as the work of creation in its strictest 
and most proper sense of the word could not for 
logical and well defined reasons be said to have 
ever had a beginning, so its journey toward per- 
fection could not, for the same reasons, be ever 
expected to have an ending. 

That it came or was evolved into being shortly 



22 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

after, if not simultaneous with God himself, and 
that its line of march was eternal, unending and 
progressive. 

Three, if no more, of the attributes with 
which we credit the deity with being pos- 
sessed—thought, power and love— presuppose all 
other hypothesis, for even the most earthly could 
scarcely imagine a lone and lonely God possessing 
all the characteristics making it possible to multi- 
ply or create unused, neither one who having mul- 
tiplied or created would afterward cease to do so. 
In fact that the road of progress was eternal and 
unending as God was himself powerful, loving and 
creative, and that having come into existence the 
tendency of all things was, of necessity, onw r ard 
and upward— no middling grounds, no compromise 
else loss eternal. 

That even God may be said to have improved 
or progressed after effort, for we are assured that 
his last labor of which we have any record— man— 
was his most perfect, indeed his crowning piece of 
handiwork. In fact his own image, a part and 
parcel of himself. Yet that it was imperfect, in- 
complete, requiring endless training and growth 
before won and kept in a path of perpetual and 
unswerving rectitude and right. 



LIFE OX AN UPPER PLANE 23 

That he also knew the powers, capabilities 
and possibilities of man, however latent and 
undeveloped they might be. as well as their 
force, effect, power and destiny if once aroused, 
awakened and set in operation, and he sought 
by every means possible tc d to bring 

this knowledge within the grasp, comprehension 
and understanding of every living human crea- 
ture. He was a progressionist, hence the great 
teacher, though his pupils have proved such sorry 
learners. 

It seems that at the time of Jesus' birth the 
world of mankind was, with a few possible excep- 
tions only, in a state that was well nigh, if not it- 
self, entire and absolute spiritual darkness. Evil 
hung as a midnight pall over the spiritual eyes of 
man, and he discerned no light, no good. Body 
and mind was enveloped or shrouded in a garb of 
almost impenetrable gloom and hope had spread 
her pearly wings and departed for realms unknown. 

Now whether man had ever before been in 
some other and more superior state of existence 
and afterward fallen, is not at present the question 
Ve, however, haven o to believe 

that man's creation was finished in the Garden of 
Eden or oth than that by divine knowledge. 



24 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

if not design, Adam did just as he was originally 
intended to do, and that the consequent results 
was exactly as foreseen if not actually foreor- 
dained. 

It seems only reasonable to suppose that Adam 
must have been created either perfect or imperfect 
as a spiritual and moral being, and that a perfect 
spiritual, and moral organization in even man would 
in the light of both common sense and modern sci- 
ence imply and mean one in whom all the moral, 
spiritual and intellectual faculties or organs of the 
mind held the supremacy— the guiding reins or 
compass over all the thought, conduct and actions 
of the individual— and we for one would certainly 
not expect such a being to break, warp, bend, or 
in any fashion or manner whatsoever transgress 
wilfully and maliciously even the most common or 
ordinary law of the land in which he lived. When 
tempted to do wrong such a being would not even 
discuss or debate the matter. Every fibre or 
faculty of his being would simply and irrevocably 
cry nay and the discussion would there be ended. 

Hence it would seem a logical deduction only 
to say that if Adam transgressed he must have 
been created fallen, or never yet in the course of 
his progress or journey ings upward have reached 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 25 

a state or condition of being sufficiently advanced 
or exalted to be endowed with the qualities of 
mind and heart necessary to enable him to resist 
evil. 

That however, some organ or faculty of his be- 
ing became endowed with some idea of his true 
nature or destiny long before his organization was 
complete, even as we know it today is we presume 
true. That he had, after some manner or fashion, 
talked to or communed with his maker and had 
even in the earliest stages of his existence as man, 
some knowledge of arid possible acquaintance with 
God. 

That he had early reached a state of being 
sufficiently advanced to be enabled to at least per- 
ceive that which was good. Likewise that having 
received such knowledge or impression the same 
had in some instances been retained and made use 
of to seek to rise, if not to regain some previous 
and more exalted state or condition of being. 

That in the beginning "the word was with 
God, the word was God and the word was made 
flesh and dwelt among us full of grace and truth.' ' 

That it was the mediator, the redeemer, the 
Savior of mankind, and for all practical uses and 
purposes, it can never make any difference to us 



26 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

whether man had fallen or was created so, and 
neither whether Christ was the first, second or 
third person in the god-head. 

The vital part to us is that he came and showed 
the world the way or forged the last, lost or until 
then, unfurnished or unacquired link that bound 
us and all the world as living conscious souls to 
the great eternal source and well spring of all life 
and truth. 



"0 God! I am one forever 

With Thee by the glory of birth; 
The celestial powers proclaim it 
To the utmost bounds of the earth. 

"I think of this birthright immortal, 
And my being expands like a rose, 

As an odorous cloud of incense 
Around and above me flows. 

"A glorious song of rejoicing 
In an innermost spirit I hear, 

And it sounds like heavenly voices, 
In a chorus divine and clear. 

* 'And I feel a power uprising, 
Like the power of an embryo god; 

With a glorious wall it surrounds me, 
And lifts me up from the sod." 



CHAPTER III. 

"Alter flowers are of many species, 
but all worship is one." 

Now we believe that it is universally conceded, 
except by the atheist, perhaps, that every child 
born into the world possesses that faculty, quality, 
principle or germ called a soul, or the means by 
virtue of which it is or may become an immortal 
being. 

We do not believe however that it necessarily 
follows that every child born into the world will 
become an individual, conscious and immortal be- 
ing and thus live continuously beyond this plane of 
existence because it was born with the capacity or 
ability for doing so. 

It may likewise have been born with a great 
capacity for music, with those faculties of the 
brain called time and tune of great, even of abnor- 
mal size and development. 

It may feel every fibre of its being, expand 



28 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

swell and grow even to bursting under the en- 
trancing influence of the harmony, melody and 
rythm of music and hear in exultation and en- 
chantment the melodies of the saints reverberate 
and ring transcend antly sweet in all the hidden 
and inmost recesses of its heart, mind and soul. 

Again, it may have been born with the germ or 
capacity for becoming a great mathematician, a 
great astronomer, a great general, a great states- 
man, but this latent ability, this uncultivated, un- 
developed germ or genius is not the thing itself, 
not the whole of the means or requirements neces- 
sary for reaching or attaining to any promised 
goal. 

Napoleon when he played at war with his 
school fellows on the ground at Brienne was not the 
general who afterwards conquered the Alps and 
mingled the eagles of France with those of her 
snow-capped craggs and peaks, Who crossed the 
bridge at Lodi, invaded Egypt and planted the 
banner of his victorious country in the shadow of 
the pyramids, or who later escaped from Elba and 
re-took an empire by the force and power of his 
mighty genius. 

The babe in the manger at Bethlehem was not 
the Christ who walked upon the waters of the Sea 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 29 

of Galilee, unbound the chains of death and opened 
the door of Lazarus' tomb, fed the thousands from 
the miraculous loaves and fishes, or scatter- 
ed the thieves in disgrace from the temple. It 
was not even the carpenter's apprentice or boy 
who afterwards expounded and defined the knotty 
problems in law to the most learned and hoary- 
headed sages in the kingdom of Judea. 

It does not follow, because a child is endowed 
at birth with the qualities of mind and heart that 
render it possible for him with proper culture, 
training and labor to mount the ladder to fame and 
greatness along a given line, that he ever will by 
computation calculate the number and distance of 
the stars in the firmament; view and take cogniz- 
ance of the shape, size, form and quality of the 
worlds among the heavenly bodies; plan, general 
and fight a great battle, such as Gettysburg, Aus- 
terlitz and Waterloo; or conceive, speak or write 
such an article as the Declaration of American 
Independence. Neither does it, as a natural or 
unavoidable sequence or consequence follow that 
he is or ever will become immortal because en- 
dowed simply with an opportunity, ability or ca- 
pacity for doing do. 

He may never see war or hear rumors thereof. 



30 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

He may never learn oratory or have the chance or 
opportunity to make speeches or plan and form- 
ulate new methods, modes or institutions of gov- 
ernment. He may never even hear of a Beetho- 
ven or Mendelssohn, an Archimides, a Gallileo, a 
Napoleon, Washington, Gladstone, Hamilton or 
Henry. 

He may never in all the days of his life see 
a piano forte or a telescope. 

The jungles of Africa, the icebound regions of 
the arctic zones and many other of the more 
remote and obscure islands of the sea contain 
countless thousands of such folk even in this ad- 
vanced age of education and general enlighten- 
ment. 

The same can also be said of India, Asia and 
Australia, to say nothing of the great cities and 
other densely populated sections in all the socalled 
civilized countries of the world. 

How many then that have never yet heard of 
a Christ. 

Now we do not blame Mr. Smith or Mr. 
Jones for not writing like Shakespeare or becom- 
ing great masters of the arts of war as did 
Washington, Wellington or Napoleon and should 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 31 

"we blame him for not acting like "Christ" is a 
question the pertinence of which is to say the 
least highly suggestive. 

It would certainly be the sheerest folly and 
nonsense to expect one to do that for which he 
never had the opportunity, for which no combina- 
tion, circumstance or chain of happenings or events 
ever made it possible or opened the way. For 
"full many a flower is born to blush unseen and 
waste its sweetness on the desert air" is unfortu- 
nately a fact that cannot be denied. 

Besides all people are not alike, ail are not 
born equal from a standpoint of intellect, morality, 
etc., whatever may be our opinion on social and 
political problems. 

How many do we meet in our every day life 
who lack even the common qualities that would 
render them self-supporting. Intelligence, indus- 
try, cunning, in short capacity. Many such are 
continually falling by the wayside. In the midst 
of plenty they are hungry, while the morally fee- 
ble and degenerate are in passions storms con- 
stantly wrecked and lost on the rocks and reefs of 
debauchery and crime. 



32 THE WORLD'S KOROSBOPE 

Nature first placed her mark or label upon the 
intellectual giant who rules and governs the affairs 
and destinies of men by the power and force of 
some mighty talent or genius, that unquestionably, 
unmistakably and undeniably distinguishes him 
from the feeble minded or imbecile unfortunate 

) babbles, grunts or whines in voluable, incohe- 
rent and unintelligible weakness and infirmity, 
as she has also, as well as man made a difference, 
a distinction that can never by any possibility be 

:aken, compared, harmonized or put on an equal 
footing, one with the other, between the criminally 
inclined or cultivated and the intelligent, kind- 
hearted, upright and benevolent man or woman 
who blesses the world with deeds of righteousness, 
love and good will to all. 

Yes, it is undoubtedly true, unless it be with 
the soul faculty alone that all people are not born 
on an equality— that is with any certain unvarying 
graduated, equally balanced or stipulated amount 
or quantity of any talent, energy, ability or capaci- 
ty of any kind or quality whatsoever; and though 
having causes that are according to the learned 
and scientific, specific, easily defined, understood 
and governed, the difference is not of a character 
that is caused or influenced by circumstances and 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 33 

surroundings that are foreign and external to the 
object.* 

In other words that lalHy or thing called 

caste ha e if anything to do with 

sritance c d mor- 

s many 
fool and 

pair »a and nations. 

3sed 

and 
tdon 

g circumstances 
and 'aces of the mig" 

amble an ate: 

and lot hear of so much being said, 

done or wri : ative to the powerful and aristo- 

crat ate or criminal, his name is also 

legion. 

But is it a fact that t a unlike 

other q is, is inherent in equal 

y and degree in all mankind, and that 

• This rule, to be being subject to 
and in a; the operation and 
manifests 1 laws which govern pre- 
natal influence is and suae .ies. 



34 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

too, apart from and independent of all other cir- 
cumstances, events, qualities and influences? 

Was that German demon Antonio Probst en- 
dowed at birth with as large a soul or one as great 
in quality and capacity as the noble Monteflore? 
Was the soul or germ of immortality as great in 
the infant Nero as in St. Paul? 

Can we in the face of every day observation 
and experience believe that even in soul faculty 
all men are alike and equally endowed? Is not the 
numberless crimes and misdeeds, the particulars of 
which are chronicled in our daily papers evidence 
to the contrary? Would great souled beings be 
guilty of these horrible and revolting crimes? 

But if not equal then what becomes of the 
future or immortality for the less fortunately en- 
dowed, for those who possess or derived little of 
the natural advantages believed in and expected 
from proper birth and breeding, or are surrounded 
by to them, insurmountable or overwhelmingly 
adverse circumstances, surroundings and influ- 
ences. 

Must we in spite of all inequalities, disadvan- 
tages and want of opportunities, all be measured 
or weighed by the same unvarying or unchanging 
scale, and without variation, distinction or differ- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 35 

ence be saved or lost according to a previously- 
fixed and unaltering standard? 

It would certainly seem that "where little is 
given little is required' ' should surely have signifi- 
cance and bearing in this case, if ever in any at 
all; and that— if our idea of justice and of a just 
and merciful God be right and consistent— a sin or 
those acts and conditions by which we could or 
possibly would lose our conscious soul would be 
offense against our particular and individual con- 
sciousness or standard of right only— the doing of 
that to which our instincts alone, independent of 
all other peoples' standards or instincts rise in ab- 
horrence and revolt. 

In other words the outrage of those princi- 
ples of right which lives and speaks within us all, 
and that too, in terms which are intelligible when 
we will listen and heed, whether we be prince or 
peasant, and wise or unwise; for though one may 
never have heard of a Jesus or partaken of the 
sacrament in any christian temple or tabernacle 
Christ and the eternal soul lives and rules within 
when we do right according to the best of our 
knowledge, instincts and abilities, whether we 
know it or not. 

For our highest, our most exalted standard of 



36 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

right is of God and is God, and a conscious, intelli- 
gently working and eternal principle inherent in 
sufficient degree in all mankind, the outrage only 
of which will in the very nature of the case dwarf, 
lose or destroy because never intended or destined 
to live and grow on any kind of food or culture 
whatsoever, excepting that of righteousness alone. 

"Hail to the dawn— the day so long foretold! 
As lightning,— sudden, swift and gleaming gold,— 
Beyond the clouds of earth, the mist of years, 
'To them that look for him' their Lord appears. 
To anxious eyes the temple veil is drawn; 
With all the heavenly host we hail the dawn." 



CHAPTER IV. 

* 'Heaven is a palace with many doors, 
and each may enter in his own way. ' ' 

Now we do not pretend to be the envoy or 
advocate, neither the strict adherent of any 
special and labeled, particular or individual kind 
of religion, denominational or sectarian. 

We count no lie holy or sacred though clothed 
in the language and vesture of a great prophet. 
Neither any good word profane or lost because 
spoken through the mouth of a heathen. We rely 
exclusively upon no church, tradition, creed or 
scripture as the last ground and infallible guide 
and rule by which to govern and control the lives 
and conduct of men, excepting that alone which is 
written in plain and unmistakable characters upon 
the tabernacle of every man's heart— his con- 
science—be it what we call enlightened or other- 
wise. 

We consider the heathen mother on the banks 
of the Ganges feeding her helpless offspring to 



38 LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 

the crocodiles— an offering to appease the wrath of 
her impossible and imaginary God— as safe when 
living up to this, her highest standard and ideal of 
right, and doing that only for which she has the 
sanction and approval of her conscience, as we do 
the most enlightened and consecrated priest or di- 
vine, in administering the holy sacrament or 
preaching words of Christly import or meaning to 
an enlightened and intelligent American or Euro- 
pean congregation. 

We accord as much honor and credit relatively 
speaking to the Koran, Confucius or Buddha for 
the good they have done as to Moses, St. John or 
the Bible, and support in neither anything that 
savors of what we have been taught to believe 
wickedness and dishonor, 

We accept these as teachers if they teach, 
helpers when they aid or help, but never as un- 
questionable and infallible guides, masters or 
authorities. 

We stake our all on the Divine presence or 
principle inherent in the souls of men, in His 
eternal word which is truth and love as it speaks 
and becomes manifest in the faculties He has 
given and the works He has done. We see His 
face in natures perfect handiwork and hear His 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 39 

voice in the deep and silent recesses of our own 
soul as it says ' 'Peace be still" and know that I 
am the living God. 

We feel Him in the inspiration of the heart, 
worship Him at the same shrine as Moses and 
Jesus, drink at the same fount and are filled with 
the living waters of the same imperishable and 
eternal truth. We love and trust, but never fear 
Him; call him Father and Creator, not judge or 
king; and think Him capable of running this uni- 
verse and taking care of every creature within its 
boundless domain without our help or interfer- 
ence. 

We believe that He is omniscient, omnipotent 
and omnipresent in spirit, as in space, as near to 
the heart and soul of man as matter to their sense, 
as feet and hands to their bodies, and that He still 
inspires and communes with men as much as when 
He talked with Moses on the mount or fell as the 
Holy Ghost on the seventy apostles at Antioch. 

That the canon of revelation is not closed nor 
God exhausted and never will be so long as there 
are men, angels and demi-gods to inspire, im- 
prove and progress. 

That the word of God is not confined to any 
written or printed book, nor bound up in or limit- 



40 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

ed by the utterances of any theological or meta- 
physical writer or prophet, past or present. 

That we "lie in the lap of immense intelli- 
gence which makes us organs of its activity and 
receivers of its truth," and that to those who will 
listen and heed, lay aside their garb of self en- 
forced ignorance and selfishness that keep them 
earth bound and in spiritual bondage and work for 
themselves and others according to the Divine 
revelations within, rather than instructions from 
without, the word of God is being perpetually 
revealed and they led "through the green pas- 
tures and by the still waters" to that goal of all 
human souls which is oneness with the Great 
Eternal First Cause— the source of all life, all 
light, all wisdom and all power 

We believe also that all men are the sons of 
God manifest in the flesh, but acknowledge the 
man Jesus as God manifest in the flesh on the 
greatest, noblest, grandest scale that ever was 
man before or since. That he was the first 
thoroughly obedient and fully developed Son of 
God, and our wise, kind, loving and compassionate 
friend and elder brother. 

That he possessed in the most superlative de- 
gree all those qualities and perfections that are 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 41 

the special attributes of the Father, and lived and 
died the noblest, grandest life and death of which 
we have any knowledge or record. The sweetest 
flower that ever budded and bloomed from the 
plant of human life, furnishing to man the noblest 
example, the highest incentive, the most exalted 
ideal of a godly life that was ever conceived of or 
dreamed about. 

That all of his characteristics as shown forth 
by a life of unexampled purity and self sacrifice 
was in the highest sense of the word the only 
begotten Son of the Father, and begotten only of 
the Father, and that he then, now and forever 
stands the right hand of the Father the noblest 
representative both of God and man the world has 
ever seen. 

But we consider it also a fact that eighteen 
hundred years have been well nigh lost to the 
world so far as spiritual improvement and prog- 
ress is concerned because of the limitations, the 
narrow minded views and conceptions placed upon 
the word and meaning of Christ, for there is a 
finer, a grander and a truer concept of the divine 
incarnation than has yet been taught by church 
or creed, priest or divine, namely— that all men are 
the Sons of God manifest in the flesh, and that 



42 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

Christ was not the name of merely one man Jesus 
whose individual sonship was, however, complete 
and perfect, but of a sonship that is universal 
and equally in quality, if not quanity inherent in all 
mankind. A sonship as entire, absolute and in- 
clusive as God is one indivisable and eternal, and 
that the relationship belongs by birthright to each 
and every individual member of the whole human 
family. 

Jesus of Nazareth w T as a man local and his- 
toric, the son of Mary and Joseph only, yet one in 
whom the Christ mind or quality was supremely 
manifest. Himself material, physical, temporal, 
yet one in whom the Christ principle was of ex- 
cessive size and development. In short, God man- 
ifest in the flesh on the grandest scale the world 
had ever seen, the which so filled him with the 
Godly qualities and attributes that he became both 
through inclination and culture, practically one 
with the Father and performed the so-called 
miraculous in his name and by his power. 

But could not all mankind do the same if living 
the life that he lived the life of perfect justice 
and mercy, the life of purity and love? That love 
which is essential, vital, eternal and intelligent. 
The life of that love which inspired by knowledge 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 43 

and faith spiritual and guided by wisdom saves 
here and hereafter. 

Now Jesus spent much of his time in prayer 
and meditation on the bosom of God, on the 
mountain and in the wilderness, studying and 
affirming in his own life and being the power of 
the Father— the Christ within— which enabled him 
to overcome all difficulties and transcend all weak- 
nesses and was at all times going diligently about 
his Father's business only preaching the kingdom 
of God at hand— within— and he thereby shed upon 
the world in greater degree than ever did man, 
the influence of that Christ, or Godly faculty or 
quality that awakened, taken hold of and lived in 
the minds and hearts of men becomes the redemp- 
tive power that saves. 

For the law of salvation or redemption 
through the love and example, by the life, 
thought and conduct of another is true in the 
higher world of the spirit as it is on the lower and 
more earthly plane of our existence. Hence he is 
Redeemer when we live according to the life he 
lived, to the example he set, and open our minds 



44 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

and hearts to the redeeming power and influence 
of the Christ which he represented and personified 
and we accede heartily to that beautiful anthem, 
"All Hail the Power of Jesus Name, Let Angels 
prostrate fall, Bring forth the Royal diadem and 
crown Him Lord of all." 

"AH, Hail the power of Jesus name, 

Let angels prostrate fall, 
Bring forth the Royal diadem 

And crown Him Lord of all." 



CHAPTER V. 

"He who in his own soul perceives the supreme soul in 
all beings, and acquires equanimity toward them all, attains 
the highest bliss." 

Now we cannot if we would, and would not 
if we could, narrow the divine incarnation to a 
single outward manifestation or expression how- 
ever grand and complete that may have been. 

God is incarnate in all nature and all there 
is or ever will be is but the visible garment of 
God. 

But we conceive the divine expression is in 
greatest degree manifest through man because 
taught that he was created in the likeness or 
image of the Father. That the breath of life 
was blown into his nostrils and he alone of all cre- 
ated things became a living soul. 

Just what the special and particular compo- 
sition, nature or quality of a living soul is, it is 
not our purpose to here attempt or seek to analyze,, 
define or explain. 



46 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

As before stated, we believe it is universally 
conceded, at least, by the Christian world, to be 
a part of God and that part of man which is or 
may become immortal, and accept it as a self- 
evident truth that man possesses some property 
or faculty of this kind or character, the which it 
follows if true, that with the arousing or full 
awakening of said godly faculty or quality, the 
unfolding or upbuilding of such divine or spirit- 
ual consciousness that man may become what he 
really is when developed, and what Jesus became 
—a lesser God— however much this seemingly 
daring statement may be doubted and haggled 
over, or the evidence of its truth obscured, hid- 
den or even entirely lost sight of in the grosser 
material complications and rubbish of our exist- 
ence. 

For if Jesus was the only Son, the only be- 
gotten of the Father, the only one in whom the 
God or Christ principle was inherent or manifest, 
how absurd then to hold him up as an example 
or pattern for those who have not the advantages 
to be derived from the inheritance of family 
qualities and characteristics by which they might 
hope or even be expected to rise to his eminence. 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 47 

As well talk about flying without wings, walking 
without feet and legs or seeing without eyes. 

We cannot grow a faculty quality or princi- 
ple unless we were born with a possibility for 
doing so. Without some germ or seed from which 
it might under proper conditions be expected to 
spring and to grow, and granting the existence 
of a soul in one man it must be true that it is 
equally existent in all, and that it is the germ or 
seed from which will spring and grow the Christ 
or oneness with the Father in all me:?, when al- 
lowed to expand and develop by proper training 
and cultivation. 

Neither does this deduction in any manner 
lower or degrade the divine dignity or Sonship 
of Jesus, the first normal, perfectly obedient and 
fully developed Son of God, though it does un- 
cover or unmask the potential Christ-hood of the 
whole human family. 

For not in one sense or instance merely was 
the word made flesh, but as an established and 
universal law governing the creation of all things, 
and was as entire and absolute in the creation 
of Adam, as in the birth of Jesus, in each case 
of which the God or Christ was manifest in the 
same quality if not in the- same degree. 



48 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

Divinity implies and means both involution 
and evolution. A possibility for all existence 
was first contained in the divine involvement of 
a power or ability by or through the potency of 
which it might later evolve or give birth and ex- 
ternal expression to such pre-existing internal 
involution, and the evolvement or external mani- 
festation of this divine internal involution was 
the conception and birth of all creation. The 
word made flesh, each atom of which was equal 
one with the other to the extent or degree of 
its completeness, which was characterized by 
beauty, harmony, sanity, power, utility, etc., and 
all alike equal in their relationship to the parent 
source from which they sprang. 

Hence the suffering, pain or misery of the 
humblest creature in existence, touches the divine 
heart in as vital a spot and with as much com- 
passion and pity, because as near to, as that of 
the greatest and grandest moral or intellectual 
giant ever created. 

The divine power or ability to evolve or 
create is a quest that is perpetual and eternal 
and is characterized by creations as boundless and 
varied in nature, character, quality and descrip- 
tion as God is omnipotent and omniscient, to all 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 49 

of which he is equally Father, Creator and 
Friend. 

He hears the ravens when they cry and gives 
them daily bread, " Behold the lillies toil not 
neither do they spin" while to man, that King 
or Prince of creation, his representative and vice- 
regent on earth to whom was given precedence 
over all other created things, he is nearer than 
feet or hands. 

His greatest, most perfect and normal ex- 
pression through man, to whom he has given 
every necessary power and ability, yet to whom 
he is not any respector of person. 

It might well, in view of the foregoing state- 
ments on this subject, be asked, did Jesus forgive 
sin? To which we would without hesitation or 
doubt answer yes, but not in the sense generally 
accepted to be the facts in the case. Not by the 
destruction, hiding or wiping away of sin by any 
unrestrained, ungoverned or uncontrolled arbitra- 
tion or authority, nor yet by the power or magic 
of his individual personality, however mighty or 
great we may concede that to have been. 

A sin once committed will remain as such 
forever. There is within our humble knowledge 
and information no law human or divine by or 



50 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

through the operation of which a wrong can ever 
become a right or cease to exist as a wrong. 

The consequences of a sin, its natural fol- 
lower or sequel, which is penalty, can, however, be 
suspended or withheld by and through the inter- 
cession or interference of divine love and power. 
Not by wiping out of the offense, nor by the set- 
ting of it aside and remembering it no more, 
either one of which suppositions is as false and 
illogical, if not utterly impossible as the other; 
and neither of which will upon close examination 
or inspection bear the search light of illuminating 
and unprejudiced truth. 

Jesus forgave or was a means of forgiveness, 
by the out -growing, overflowing or overshadowing 
of sin by the power and virtue of that love 
divine, the Christ, or God for which he was a fit 
channel or means of communication and egress. 

By the raising or causing to be raised by the 
side of wrong a right of sufficient power and 
magnitude to overpower, overwhelm, in fact over- 
throw the strength, ability or influence of sin to 
damn and destroy. 

In which view of the case Jesus may be said 
to have forgiven sin. To have borne our sorrows 
and carried our burdens, to have been in fact the 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 51 

the scape goat for the sins of the v/orld; for no 
burden or penalty for wrong can ever fall while 
held in abeyance or suspension by the over-mas- 
tering power and influence of that right which 
is all powerful and eternal knowing no variable- 
ness or change. That .right which he repre- 
sented and personified, and which raised at the 
side of wrong by genuine sorrow and repentance 
could never by any possibility lose its power and 
efficacy to heal and to save. 

A significant proof of which hypothesis is 
that Jesus never forgave any but the sorrowful 
and repentent. Then only responsive and sym- 
pathetic chords met. Deep called unto deep and 
behold the Christ arose in man, resurrected as it 
were from the dead to inspire, to bless and to 
save. 

Is Jesus still powerful to save? No, because 
with the physical death he ceased to exist as 
mediator between God and man. His work was 
finished, his labors ended, but his example, the 
brightest star in the constellation of righteous- 
ness pointing us the way to heaven through the 
Christ within, which is spirit divine, undying 
and eternal— that even the cross could not affect 
nor all the powers and demons of death and hell 



52 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

overcome or prevail against— will live forever 
the loftiest, spiritual altitude to be attained; that 
sought for and patterned after will live and grow 
eternal in the souls hearts and minds of men to 
their redemption, salvation, and life everlasting 
beyond this vale of sorrow and tears in that hap- 
py and eternal home of the soul with God and 
the angels, where peace and joy only will blossom 
and bloom forever nourished and sustained from 
that fount of unfailing supply, the bosom and 
heart of the all powerful and exhaustless infinite. 

"Seek not the spirit if it hold 

Inexorable to thy zeal ; 
Trembler do not whine or chide— 

Art thou not also real?" 



CHAPTER VI. 

"Remember man, the universal eause acts not by par- 
tial, but by general laws." 

That Jesus did not die a sacrifice for the sins 
of the world, or purchase any salvation for man 
by the shedding of his innocent and inoffensive 
blood on Calvary, we believe to be an assertion 
founded on and supported by common sense, rea- 
son and scripture. 

Too long has the world listened to that bur- 
den of song, sermon and prayer, " Jesus paid it 
All" which is an insult to the intelligence of man 
and a libel and travesty on the character and 
attributes of God. 

One man cannot live for another, neither 
can he die for him, in the common acceptation of 
the term in this particular instance. 

Even if the spiritual death or eternal dam- 
nation of man is a possibility, and was a require- 
ment, or assessment by the Creator as a punish- 
ment or penalty to pay or atone for the violation 



54 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

of divine law, we submit that it would be diffi- 
cult indeed for an average mind to perceive how 
the physical suffering and death in this world of 
another, and that other too, a Jesus who had 
never in all the days of his life transgressed a 
law, and could therefore not fall legally and right- 
fully beneath even the shadow of its penalty, 
could by any possibility ever be used in substi- 
tution for, or the discharge of an obligation of 
such a character and thus contracted or incurred. 

Besides, even if it is true that man was a 
transgressor and had rightfully fallen under the 
weight of divine displeasure and penalty, surely 
our Father could never have been angered to the 
point of blood thirstiness. Surely he could never 
by any means whatsoever have been induced to 
commit or cause to be committed a murder in 
the shedding of the innocent blood of even this 
one only, though it were for the salvation of an 
entire world. Surely the qualities which would 
be thus indicated do not belong to the Almighty 
Maker and Ruler of this universe. 

But is it true? Is it a reasonable and a de- 
monstrable fact that there was ever any debt 
to pay, much less one of the kind and character 
here indicated, or that any body ever was or 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 55 

would be damned in default of such payment ? 
Adam certainly never, within our knowledge and 
understanding of the history of this case or his 
own either, we can but presume, bargained for 
or in any manner or fashion whatsoever pur- 
chased or bought any part or interest in heaven, ® 
If he ever owned or enjoyed any such possession 
it must undoubtedly have been conferred upon 
or given to him gratuitously at his creation, in 
which case it is only reasonable to suppose he 
was unconsulted, as well as a silent and uncon- 
scious partner during the progress of the entire 
proceeding or transaction, settling or bestowing 
such an estate or possession upon him. Now, 
the question that naturally rises for answer on 
this subject, in the minds of the investigating or 
inquiring are these. For what does man owe? 
From what did he fall, or what was the Eden 
in which Adam lived previous to this traditional 
fall? Was it heaven? Which if answered in the 
affirmative again comes the inquiry, did Adam 

© In our use of the term heaven in connection with the 
story of Eden, we mean it in that sense only which has ref- 
erence to the place, state or condition of purity or holiness 
in which Adam is aupposed to have lived previous to the 
fall, 



56 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

possess heaven? Was Adam, (who is said to 
have been the one who contracted this much- 
talked of debt, and thereby placed a mortgage on 
his own soul and that of all mankind, because of 
and through their relationship to him from then on 
down all the succeeding ages to the very end of 
time itself), ever in heaven? Did he know that 
he was created or born even a prospective heir 
to it? 

Now in Eden, the locality or place of Adam's 
residence or abode, we are told there grew a tree 
of the knowledge of both good, and evil, from 
which Adam was forbidden to eat. Also that 
there was a tree of life growing midway in the 
garden from which he was likewise kept care- 
fully excluded, lest, he partake thereof and liye 
forever. One of these statements affirm the ex- 
istence in Eden of evil, or at least its instigator 
or inciter, while the other hints at and even sug- 
gests the possibility of death. 

We are further left to infer by the presence 
of the tree, that evil had an existence previous 
to this garden of Eden incident, and was either 
still in existence or known to be an element that 
might at any time, or could upon demand, come 
into existence, as which, according to the story, 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 67 

it at a later date did do. Also that there was a 
possibility of Adam eating of the tree of life and 
thereby living forever, from which the inference 
is obvious that without such eating he would 
surely die; that death would sooner or later in- 
vade the realm in which he lived and claim him 
as its own. From which view of the case it 
would plainly appear that both evil and death 
not only could, but in all probability would, some- 
time enter there, in which case we can but infer 
that Eden was not heaven. 

In either event howev r Eden was 

heaven or not, does it not follow as a natural 
sequence of the entire affair or transaction, as 
related in Holy Scripture that God alone was 
responsible for Adam's transgression, because the 
author and maker of any and all circumstances or 
causes whatsoever leading up to and finally pro- 
ducing the whole grand catastrophe? 

Did he not put Adam in a place where he un- 
doubtedly knew there was not only a possibility but 
even a great probability, that both evil and death 
would enter and claim him a victim to their united 
miseries and terrors? Was he not the creator of 
an organization in Adam that made it possible 
for him to lie, and to steal or otherwise err, as 



58 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

well as this Eden or heaven also, with all of its 
delights, and temptations that Adam was neither 
intellectually or morally able to withstand, and 
that not only could, but did assail him in the 
character of trees, serpents, women, etc., for, how 
evil, or a tree of even the knowledge only, of evil 
could exist there, unless brought into being by 
God, and that too (our inference drawn from the 
sequel) for express use and purpose in Adam's 
case, it is past our ability to comprehend or con- 
ceive. 

God must have been the author and maker 
of the tree of life also, but in this instance he 
showed plainly and conclusively that it was not 
his wish or intention that man should eat of it 
and thereby live forever, for he took measures to 
prevent it and sent Adam forth from the garden; 
by which act of cutting him off from the tree 
God made it impossible for Adam to partake of 
its benefits and thereby live. 

Adam was from all accounts plainly in a state 
of death any way, because it was not life that was 
eternal, "And now lest he put forth his hand and 
take also of the tree of life and eat and live for- 
ever: therefore the Lord God sent him forth from 
the garden of Eden." But if evil was an element 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 59 

that was not wanted in the garden of Eden, might 
not God have dealt likewise with Adam as regard- 
ed the tree of knowledge? 

Are we to suppose that God was incapable of 
running things as he at first wished for and in- 
tended to do? May we not with as much reason 
believe that being mighty in the first place to bring 
this universe and all contained therein into being, 
he was likewise and equally mighty to run it as he 
chose, and that all things was just as wished for 
and intended to be, all theological dogma to the 
contrary notwithstanding? 

But what are we under such a chain of cir- 
cumstances or reasonings to do with this traditional 
or fabled fall of man? 

It seems undoubtedly demonstrable and there- 
fore conclusive, that not only did evil first have 
existence in Eden, but that it was brought into 
being— or at least the causes leading up to and 
later producing it— and knowingly too, we can but 
imagine, by no less a personage than God himself. 
Likewise that as there was a possibility for eternal 
life in Eden, there must also have been a possibil- 
ity of death, of which condition God was likewise 
the author and maker. 

Surely then it was not heaven, surely not that 



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place of absolute purity and eternal life pictured 
to us as the celestial abode, in which no evil nor 
death, or possibility thereof could ever enter. But 
will some learned theologian rise to tell us if Eden 
was not heaven, th^n for what does man owe? For 
what did Adam contract a debt, or what was the 
precious state from which he is said to have fallen? 
For, can the mind of mortal man conceive, or grasp 
the idea, of how he could possibly owe a debt for 
something he had never yet acquired, contracted 
for, purchased or otherwise possessed. 



"Every day is a fresh beginning, 

Every morn is the world made new; 

You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, 
Here is a beautiful hope for you, 
A hope for me and a hope for you. 

"All the past things are past and over, 

The tasks are done, and the tears are shed. 

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover; 

Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled, 
Are healed with the healing which might has shed 



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"Here are the skies all burnished brightly; 

Here is the spent earth all reborn; 

Here are the the tired limbs springing lightly 
To face the sun and and share with the morn 

In chrism of dew, and the cool of dawn. 

"Every day is a fresh begining, 

Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, 

And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning, 

And puzzles forcasted, and possible pain, 

Take heart with the day and begin again. ' ' 



CHAPTER VII 

"Shrine of the mighty! Can it be that this is all 
remains of thee?" 

According to all accounts, Eden was certain- 
ly upon this earth and, Adam also, from the very 
moment of his creation, for "And the Lord God 
formed man of the dust of the ground" — "And 
the Lord God planted a garden eastward in 
Eden and there he put the man whom he had 
formed," and later "So he drove out the man: 
and he placed at the east of the garden of 
Eden cherubim, and a flaming sword which 
turned every way, to keep the way of the tree 
of Life." 

Now, the mystery is what became of this 
garden of Eden after man's expulsion from it? 
Where now, is that place of the cherubim and 
the flaming sword that keeps its jealous guard 
over the tree of life? Did perhaps the sinking 
of the doomed and lost Atlantis, carry to the 
bottom of the great Atlantic this garden of 
Eden, with its tree of life and other benefits 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 63 

and delights? Might it be possible, that the 
cherubim and flaming sword of Edenic fame, has 
since the terrible catastrophe that sunk one of 
earths great continents, lain prostrate on the bed 
of that mighty ocean? Or, may it be that it 
still exists somewhere on this globe so many 
times circumnavigated and explored, and that it 
may yet be found in some hitherto hidden or 
undiscovered nook or corner of earths remotest 
seas? 

May the North or South poles hold in re- 
serve this mightiest and greatest of all discover- 
ies, for some modern Columbus daring enough to 
penetrate their dangerous seas, and by success in 
such enterprise, set forever at rest the important 
question of geographical location for man's first 
and primitive dwelling place? 

Such suppositions or suggestions for the so- 
lution of this problem may all seem quite pos- 
sible and even plausible, but nevertheless they 
are far fetched and very improbable. 

It is very possible, and altogether probable, 
that man found his earliest home in some lux- 
urious tropical country of the known world, 
surrounded by all the rich and varied life and 
scenery, vegetable and animal with which such 



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regions abound, but that any signs or marks 
still exist, by which we may ever read the his- 
tory of that dim and misty past, or again, locate 
the long since lost and forgotten land marks of 
that primitive country, is exceedingly improb- 
able. 

The story as told in Genesis is doubtless in 
many instances and senses of the word, a true 
and authentic account or history of the creation, 
but clothed as it is in the fervid language and 
imagery so characteristic of oriental fiction, we 
consider and submit it as absurd and misleading 
in its statement of what may possibly be very 
much facts. Facts too, that are vastly interest- 
ing and vital, to the entire world of mankind. 

The story throughout, partakes too strongly 
of the allegorical we are convinced, to be accept- 
ed soberly and sanely, as an absolutely accurate, 
correct, and minutely truthful, narrative of that 
greatest of all events. Its figure of speech is 
as hard to accept and believe literally, and un- 
questioningly, as that which declares that Jonah 
lived three days in the belly of a whale, or 
that Elijah went to heaven in a chariot, and 
others of like character related by inspired 
prophets in the Holy Scriptures. 



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Now, geologically speaking, the six days of 
creation, was undoubtedly ages, ages too in 
which millions of years perhaps, as we count 
time, came and went their weary way unherald- 
ed and unnumbered: except in the calendar of 
the mighty God; while man, in fact, all creation 
was being slowly and gradually evolved, and 
brought forth stage by stage, and step by step, 
from the bosom of the creative infinite, the 
head and fountain source of all supply, of all 
cause and effect. Millions of years possibly, 
elapsed from the time when incipient, or rudi- 
mentary man began first to germinate and grow 
in the silent recesses of the bosom of nature- 
God,— to that time when he stood forth as we 
know him today, triumphant, and victoriously 
above and beyond the dark and mystic found- 
ations of his own existence. 

Doubtless his history reaches far back into 
a primitive world, peopled with animals, even 
monsters perhaps, who were or became his an- 
cestors. But can it affect man's status today, 
because perchance a million years since some 
four footed and hairy bodied progenitor of his 
race lived houseless, roaming naked and unkempt 
through the jungles of some primeval forest 



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finding subsistence on nuts and fruit that grew 
wild in abundance, though uncultivated and un- 
titled ? And can that fact, if such it be, in any 
manner lessen or degrade the gigantic labors of 
the great creative first cause or principle back 
of all things. 

Can it make any difference, whether God 
created the world in six days, or six ages of one 
million years each? Or, are we forced to believe 
that this universe and all it contains, came into 
a full blown and flourishing existence as do 
boom towns in new territories— between two 
suns so to speak— in order to believe in God and 
his creative powers? Or, are we to suppose that 
having done this six days labor, that deity rest- 
ed for all the remainder of eternity: or that be- 
cause man stood forth on the sixth day of crea- 
tion, the proudest and most imperial being be- 
neath heavens shining sun, that his creation 
was finished? That he was perfect, because his 
maker pronounced him good? "And God saw 
■everything that he had made, and behold it was 
very good." 

Must we believe, that when man had 
reached that promising stage is his progress and 
development, where he could think and reason, 



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ponder and long, weigh and compare, judge and 
pronounce sentence, that his creation was com- 
plete? That progress had folded her industrious 
hands in idleness forevermore, and yet that man 
fell, thereby dishonoring his maker and ruining 
himself? 

Can the mind of the sane, comprehend how 
either a perfect, or imperfect being, could fall as 
herein taught? 

Viewed from a phrenological standpoint, 
Adam must undoubtedly have been endowed at 
his creation, with a mental and moral organiza- 
tion as well as a physical one, and have been 
wise or foolish, good or bad, according to said 
organization and makeup. He must have been 
possessed of an organization in which some one 
or more, of his mental faculties or qualities was 
supreme, and held the guiding reins or compass 
over all his other faculties and qualities; and 
hence over all his thought, conduct and actions. 

We must suppose that he had brains, as well 
as hands and feet, or any other physical necess- 
ity, and that having brains they must have been 
of some particular and individual kind, character 
and quality; that in their turn became parent to 



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a mind of corresponding kind, character and 
quality. 

We can not imagine a man living and act- 
ing without brains of some kind. Neither one 
who possessed of brains, would not produce 
thought of some kind or quality, that in its turn 
would be manifested and shown forth by a con- 
duct and action of corresponding kind and 
quality. In other words, a conduct and action 
in exact proportion and accordance with the 
order, size, form and quality, of the brain of the 
individual who gave such conduct or action 
birth. An idiot would not do less, a wise man 
could do no more; and to grant or concede that 
Adam had a brain, would undoubtedly be to 
grant and concede also, that according to the 
character and workings of that brain, would 
have been the character of his conduct and ac- 
tions in life, which concession would bring 
those of us who cling to the story of the fall 
of man, into a very perplexing and possibly em- 
barassing situation or dilemma. 

For certainly Adam was not the author and 
maker of his brains, any more than he was the 
author and maker of his eyes and mouth, his 
lungs and heart, or any other part of his physi- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 69 

cal organization and makeup; and if not the 
author and maker of his brain could he in any 
sense of the word be responsible for its outward 
manifestation or expression— his conduct. 

Now, it is not our intention to write a 
phrenological treatise, or attempt to go into any- 
exhaustive or scientific, discussion or exposition, 
on the character and workings of the various 
properties and faculties of the human brain. 
How one faculty or set of faculties, may and do 
dominate, rule and govern, the more subordinate 
ones, and how that quality or thing called mind 
is finally evolved or produced from such work- 
ings of the brain. We believe it pretty general- 
ly accepted as a fact, long since demonstrated 
and settled beyond a doubt, or question, by 
such eminent and scientific authorities as Hux- 
ley, Fowler, Spurgeon, etc., that man's mental 
construction or makeup— his brain— is the mo- 
tive power which rules and governs every 
thought, feeling, wish, instinct, desire, passion 
and action of his life, and that according to the 
shape, size, form and quality, of his brain, will 
be the mind to which it gives birth, and that in 
its turn will rule and govern every thought, 



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feeling, wish, instinct, desire, passion and 
action of the man's life. 

"His dwelling 'mid the strength of rocks 

Shall ever stand secure ; 
His Father shall provide his bread; 

His water shall be sure." 



CHAPTER VIII 

"In other words, we are asked to believe that God 
proved his prescience and power by reversing those very 
laws which he had framed for cosmic rule. ' ' 

i The story of the fall of man is, we presume, 
as old practically as man himself, as old at least 
as his written history, and has been handed 
down to us through all the ages as a fact, that 
accounted for all of man's infirmaties, short- 
comings, weaknesses, etc. 

When he has been erring, he has been told 
that it was because he was born in sin; that he 
was a vile creature of the dust, fallen from some 
high and holy estate. That previous to this fall, 
he had lived in a state of purity and innocence 
with God; but since which time every thought of 
his mind, every desire and instinct of his heart, 
had been evil, and that no good within him lived. 

Now man's imperfections may, indeed, 
account for all of his weaknesses and errors, for 
all of his short comings and failings, but their 
existence, is certainly no absolute or incontest- 
ible proof that he is wholly and altogether bad. 



72 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

any more than it is proof that he was ever 
wholly and altogether good; or furthermore, 
there has ever been even the shadow of a 
change, or difference in the inherent and consti- 
tutional nature and makeup of man, mental, 
moral, or physical, from the day of his creation 
to the present time. 

Haven't we the Bible in support and corobo- 
ration of the fact, that the first man stole, and 
the second one commited murder? 

On the other hand, is there not an abund- 
ance of evidence to prove that during every 
age of man's earthly existence, and history, that 
there has lived people of grand, noble, and God 
like qualities and character. People who in 
spite of numerous favorable and even well nigh 
compelling circumstances and surroundings, could 
not and would not have been induced to commit 
any wicked, cruel or dishonorable deed, much less 
either of those capital crimes called murder and 
theft. 

Now the first of the these primitive criminals 
was Adam, whom the Lord had called good, 
while the second was Cain, his son. Would it 
not be strange, indeed, if one of these men could 
steal and the other one commit murder, unless 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 73 

they were created or bom with those elements 
paramount in their natures and characters which 
make such crimes possible? Is not the fact that 
they did possess such elements of character in- 
contestibly proven by the commission of the 
crimes themselves? 

Such traits could certainly not have come by 
chance or from the accident of birth and conse- 
quent inheritance of character and quality in 
both cases, at any rate, neither from previous bad 
example or training. Adam at least must have 
been an exception in this instance. 

It is all very well, perhaps quite to the point, 
and therefore admissible, to say that Cain inher- 
ited his evil tendencies from Adam, his father, 
or from Eve, his mother, or even from both of 
them; but the vital and, therefore, most interest- 
ing question at issue in the present contempla- 
tion of the subject is, from whom did Adam and 
Eve inherit their tendency to evil, their ability 
to sympathise with and commit wrong. They at 
least had no precedent, no previous bad example, 
or training. God alone had been their sole com- 
panion and friend, as well as maker, until the 
serpent crept in. 

We think it can scarcely be denied that Adam 



74 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

was created either perfect or imperfect; that his 
mental and moral organization was either com- 
plete or incomplete; and that according to the 
measure or degree of completeness or incomplete 
ness of such mental and moral organization, would 
have been all the thought, conduct and action of 
the man. Neither that if he was complete and 
perfect, that his must have been an organization 
in which all the moral and intellectual faculties 
was supreme, and held the guiding and controll- 
ing influence over all the man's thought and con- 
duct for good only, or vice versa. 

Now, as we do not blame our children if they 
happen to have blue eyes instead of black ones, 
or that one is a musician, while the other is a 
mechanic, or in any manner whatsoever consider 
them as responsible for the peculiarities of con- 
stitution and temperament with which they were 
at birth endowed; as even with our small idea of 
justice the kleptomaniac is exonerated by law 
because he is in no sense of the word held as 
responsible or to blame for the possession of 
such unfortunate characteristics, can or must we 
believe in a God more exacting and less just. 

Can it have been that God was mistaken or 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 75 

disappointed in the nature and character of His 
handiwork when finished? 

What would we think if a man who is believed 
in and accepted as an enlightened and thorough- 
ly skillful and competent architect or mechanic 
laid out the plans and proceeded to build what 
he intended for and believed to be a house, if, 
after the completion and passing of his judgment 
upon the structure as a perfect house it turned 
out or proved to be a ship? Would we think the 
man's judgment was sound when he built and 
afterwards pronounced such structure a perfect 
house? Would we not be perfectly justified in 
thinking there was something wrong with the 
man, as well as with what was intended to be 
the house? 

Can we conceive of an all powerful and om- 
nipotent creator laboring under a disappointing 
and embarrassing condition or situation of affairs 
exactly the parallel or counterpart of this one? 

Is it possible to believe that God made man 
perfect and yet he fell? That after every part 
of man's organization w r as made complete, and 
perfect, in some certain and particular way in 
order to insure a finished job of some certain 
and particular character or kind, it turned out to 



76 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

be exactly the reverse, something entirely differ- 
ent from and utterly unlike what his maker had 
originally wished for and intended it to be. 

Is it not thoroughly nonsensical to run behind 
that long since threadbare and perfectly transpar- 
ent subterfuge that Adam |was complete and per- 
fect only as man? Is it not evident enough that 
he was not God? Very evident, indeed, that his 
measure of completeness, if such it might be 
called, was limited, incomplete, and therefore im- 
perfect. And if he was not God what else could 
he have been but man, and if man what else but 
imperfect; for does not perfection belong to God 
alone? 

Is it not plain that if Adam transgressed it 
was because he was created with an organization 
that made such transgression not only possiple, 
but a certain result of such organization? 

Now, according to the free moral agency of 
man theorists, man was perfect, but could go 
wrong if he chose to do so, which is exactly 
equivalent to saying he could fly if he only had 
wings, for if Adam was perfect could he have 
been imperfect also ? Could two entireties occu- 
py the same space at the same time? 

Dear reader, ask yourself if you could, with 



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your own free will and consent, commit that crime 
which is most repellant, most repugnant, most 
horrifying to every thought, feeling and instinct 
of your entire nature and being; that crime for 
which you have the least inclination and the 
greatest consternation and horror, and why? Is 
it not because there is nothing in your nature to 
sympathize with, or to aid and abet you in even 
the contemplation of such a crime? Or if, on the 
other hand, it is not easy to do those things 
which you like, to which all your being responds 
and gives merry and willing assent. 

Again, that if evil and good had been evenly 
balanced in Adam's constitution and make-up, 
could there, in all human reason, ever have been 
any variation or change whatsoever, either one 
way or the other. 

If it is possible that with a pound on each 
end of the scales, one end could ever outweigh 
or overbalance the other. 

We see but half the causes of our deeds, 
Seeking them wholly in the outer life, 
And heedless of the encircling spirit world, 
Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in us 
All germs of pure and world-wide purposes.' * 



CHAPTER IX. 

But compelled to do battle for existence; to strive with 
the beasts of the field, with disease, with hnnger, with the 
power of the elements, he grew in strength and wisdom 
became in very truth a lord of creation. ' ' 

Now we feel perfectly conscientious and, 
therefore, justifiable, in stigmatizing the theologi- 
cal dogma of the fall of man, as a myth or fable; 
a creature of the imagination only, born of ages 
of ignorance and superstition. 

But, should we grant as a possibility that 
Eden was some very superior and exalted state 
of being, from which it was possible for Adam 
to fall, either through ignorance, wickedness or 
otherwise, and thereby lose his individual right to 
residence there, would seem concession enough; 
but to say, likewise, that he incurred or contract- 
ed a debt for all mankind, and for all time to 
come, that could only be paid in the physical suf- 
fering and death here, of one who is not claimed 
to have fallen even heir to this terrible penalty, but 
on whose death and consequent payment of this 
debt we have only to believe and trust in for our 



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salvation, accepting him as our Savior, the great 
and innocent substitute and sacrifice of our wrong, 
is, we confess, to us another one of those so-called 
religious truths that our imagination is not fer- 
tile enough to grasp and understand. 

If Adam did perchance go foraging in the 
garden of the Lord, and steal an apple or some- 
thing of like character that had been forbidden 
to him, and thereby prove himself individually un- 
worthy of living there, does it not seem incredi- 
ble that the penalty for such an offense could fall 
also, and for all time to come, on all the count- 
less millions of mankind yet unborn; and, fur- 
thermore incredible that not only could such pen- 
alty for such an offense, fall upon and expel Adam 
and all these countless millions of unborn hu- 
manity from Eden, but that it could also bring 
into existence or being a horrible and eternal hell 
(fire and brimstone, or something similar,) for 
their everlasting torture and torment, unless, in- 
deed some innocent substitute or sacrifice could be 
found, and which even then would not be effica- 
cious or binding, unless he was accepted and 
acknowledged to be such. 

That some one must certainly suffer an eternity 
of torment and punishment any way, because, all 



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are not alike able to believe in this atonement 
story. 

Is not such a picture fit for the contemplation 
and enjoyment of devils only? Can such a pano- 
rama of cruelty, and injustice, be harmonized or 
reconciled with an idea of a just, merciful and 
loving God. 

For, be it remembered that every one born into 
this so-called vile and wicked world is neither a 
liar, a thief, or a murderer, and could, therefore, 
surely not be deserving of an eternity of torment, 
simply because they had happened to the great 
misfortune of being ushered as sentient beings, into 
a world where such conditions, exist and that, too, 
let us remark in passing, without either their con- 
sent or volition in the matter; besides being possi- 
bly encumbered likewise, with a mental organiza- 
tion that make it utterly impossible for them to 
believe as they might otherwise have done. 

Is it strange that with such teachings man 
should become in great measure both coward and 
infidel? Is a man any more responsible for his 
particular belief than he is for the particular color 
of his hair and eyes, or that he is five feet tall 
instead of six? 

But, can we grant even the possibility of such 



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an absurdity as Adam's fall, and hence, Jesus' 
death as a sacrifice or atonement for sin? 

Let us look again at the garden of Eden and 
into the primitive state of man. 

A lovely picture unrolls and extends itself be- 
fore our eyes; a strange scene in an immeasurably 
far of time. Here it is that Love, and Necessity, 
those mightiest of all mighty attributes born into 
blessed and inseparable wedlock, from the un- 
fathomable bosom of boundless infinity, are seen 
to hang in pensive, brooding lullaby over a fair 
but lonely world. 

Here it is also, that Progress, the great and 
noble first-born child of this happy union, now 
that his first and mighty labor is finished, has 
folded his industrious hands to rest and wait in 
silence and meditation his next great call to action. 

A fair, but lonely world, wrapped in the gold- 
en mantle of a fair and early morning's rising 
sunbeams. Innumerable fleecy clouds coming from 
the unknown distance beyond, glittering with all 
the bright and charming colors of the rainbow, 
float slowly and phantom-like across the majestic 
vault of the blue tinted heavens, and disappear 
again in the quivering morning light. A beauti- 
ful meadow, clothed in a garment of emerald 



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green, spotted here and there with flowers of 
many and brilliant hues and colors, stretches 
down a valley at one edge of which a silvery 
little stream winds its merry way in and out, 
around the base of the opposite mountain wall ; 
while in the near distance on the other hand, is 
seen the dark and ragged outline of a luxuriant 
forest growth, that with its stately sentinels— 
strayers from the parent fold— scattered here 
and there in towering solitude and grandeur over 
the face of the valley, and even to the waters 
edge, seems worthy guards over this bright and 
peaceful scene. 

"A great unity sunk in harmonious tran- 
quility.' ' 

A light breeze stirs the surface of the waters 
in the little stream, and sighs gently through the 
rank foliage of the by-standing trees, stirring 
the leaves and slightly waving its branches; 
then loses itself once more in a faint murmuring 
of content among the blue bells and daises of the 
valley, who raise their winsome little heads in 
joy and gladness to the welcoming caress of its 
refreshing and ever invigorating presence. 

The vision extends itself, becomes more plain 



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and we look again, more intently this time, for 
something is happening. 

A transformation is taking place. Progress 
has raised his mighty hands and, behold! the 
songs of the mocking bird and nightingale is 
heard in sweet and plaintive melody, upon the 
mornings trembling balmy air. 

Little fish, all purple and silver and gold, 
swim to and fro in the brooklets laughing waters, 
while in the valley and on the mountain side the 
jack rabbit, the deer and the elk, are seen to 
sport in merry, gleesome play, or raise their trim 
and shapely heads in listening attitude, suspicious 
at some faint or unfamiliar sound, then run for 
cover beneath the shelter of some near by rock, 
tree or shrub, coveted as protection from intru- 
sion and possible danger. 

From the darkened mountain caverns is seen 
also, to peep and peer in watchful vigilance, the 
shaggy heads and piercing eyes of strange and 
ferocious looking beasts, as they take rapid survey 
of the peaceful valley below, then dart once more 
from sight beneath the friendly shelter of their 
rockey cavern homes. 

We hear, in imagination, the scream of the 
wildcat and the panther, then feel our heart grow 



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steady once more in the contemplation of the 
drowsy cattle, who feed lazy and contentedly on 
the luscious grasses in this fairest of all fair 
pastures. 

But what next? Ah! again the arms of Pro- 
gress are raised with masterful power and might, 
and a tiny, joyous little creature runs to and fro 
among the trees and flowers, outrivaling in beauty 
and purity the buttercups and dandelions now 
gathered in his chubby little hands, held to the 
ruby lips, then thrown laughingly on the fragrant 
morning breeze. 

The song birds cease their merriment and 
listen in silent amazement to the strange but 
pleasant sound, while the cattle and other four- 
footed creatures of the meadow raise their heads 
and for a brief space gaze in wonder on this fairest 
of all fair visions— a lovely, innocent little child— 
then browse on again in silent contentment, con- 
vinced that all is well. 

The picture pales and fades, but comes pre- 
sently again. We rub our eyes and gaze, for 
something is wrong, something changed or differ- 
ent, though in all essentials it on first sight ap- 
pears to be the same. 

The mountain, the meadow, the brook, remain 



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as we saw them a moment since, unchanged, un- 
sullied in all their fresh and virgin purity and 
loveliness of feature and dress, The birds sing as 
gaily as of yore; the rabbit and the hare romp and 
play in the waving grasses of the flower- spangled 
meadow; beneath the shade of the trees of the 
forest and along the waters edge other animals 
are seen to run and sport in merry frolic and glee, 
or to lie still and chew their cuds in happy and 
undisturbed quietude and peace. The flowers of 
the valley shed their sweetest fragrance on the 
air, while the same bright gow of sun diffused 
throughout it all, still lends charm and color to the 
peaceful, happy scene. And yet something is 
wrong, something changed or different from what 
we at first beheld. 

What is it? We look again, deeply and genu- 
inely concerned this time; but memory comes pre- 
sently to our rescue, and we gaze in surprise and 
wonder to find that the fairest part of the vision 
should so long have remained unsought, unmissed, 
from among even this vast panorama of gorgeous 
beauties and entrancing sights. 

The scene suddenly loses its charm, its princi- 
ple and most important feature of attraction, and 
our concern and anxiety grow, for where is the 



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lovely, winsome child with its bright, happy little 
face, laughing eyes and dark curling hair. Hur- 
riedly we scan the landscape before us, this way 
and that, in eager pursuit and search of the lost 
or missing treasure. Where is he? And our heart 
grows faint with anxiety and fear, lest this fairest 
and sweetest part of the vision has vanished, 
never to return. Moments seem ages, a great fear 
takes possession of us and we turn in alarm to the 
ferocious looking beasts on the mountain side, and 
feel our soul grow sick with apprehension and 
dread. 

But ah ! Our search is suddenly brought to a 
happy close. Our quest is ended and we catch 
our breath in joy and relief at the discovery, only 
to look again the next moment in greater doubt 
and perplexity than ever at the superb creature 
before us, so like, yet so unlike, the child for 
whom we sought. 

What is it ? Not a child, certainly, neither an 
angel or a God, yet a being whom we instinctively 
know to possess in his single person, something 
of the leading and more prominent features and 
characteristics of each and all. 

Simple and child-like in the pure, unspoiled, 
unsophisticated beauty and simplicity of his man- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 87 

ners and conduct, majestic, and god-like in the 
grand and noble perfection and bearing of his 
form and feature. 

One possessing in his single person all the 
beauty, sweetness, purity and innocence of a 
child, the face, form and heart of a God; yet with- 
al! holding as inherent within him all the abilities 
and possibilities, as well as faults, failings and 
weaknesses of a man only. 

Great as a God, yet simple and weak as a child. 

Such is the picture that now comes before us, 
and we gaze in surprise and admiration at the 
scene, in utter loss which most to admire and love 
of the charming combination, this perfect triple 
one— the God, the child, or the man. 

Interested beyond measure we look and search 
for others like him, for mother or father, for com- 
panion or friend, but lo! there are none. He stands 
solitary and alone the sole and only representative 
of his kind. 

Alone, too, in a great, glorious and mighty 
world, peopled with all things else. 

Carefully now we scan the face and features 
of this solitary and lonely man, intent, if possible, 
to read therein the solemn story of his sad and 
solitary life. 



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No mother's kiss ever pressed on that pure, 
unfurrowed brow; no father's hand ever raised in 
pride and benediction above his stately head; no 
sister or brother, no wife or child, no sweetheart, 
companion or friend. No one to love and cherish, 
none to fondle and caress, no word or term of love 
and affection ever gladdened those ears or passed 
those lips to another. No fair woman's head ever 
pillow r ed on that broad and manly breast; no bright 
eyed, rosy cheeked babe ever pressed in paternal 
pride and love to that fond and hungry heart. 

What a picture? What a life? Oh! what a 
a world of pain, and pathos, and misery, in that 
one short sentence, solitary and alone? 

We feel a sudden jar and tension on our heart 
strings, and are sensible of a great and powerful 
change or reversal of sentiment and feeling within 
us. A mist comes swiftly before our eyes; the 
sun screens his glorious light behind a mantle of 
dark and dismal cloud, while Love and Necessity 
hover in yearning, burning sorrow and pity above 
the darkening horizon of what is now a sad and 
dismal scene. 

All charm and fascination has swiftly van- 
ished, and we close our eyes to shut out for a time 
all further knowledge of a sight that has become 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 89 

rapidly overwhelming in its horrible desolation and 
heartrending loneliness. 

We open them presently again, however, and 
stare in wonder and amazement at the spectacle 
before us. Can we believe our senses, or have we 
become suddenly insane? Is this the same scene 
over which we sorrowed and anguished a moment 
only since? Is it possible that such a transforma- 
tion has actually taken place ? Can it be true ? 
And lost in surprise, delight and admiration, we 
gaze silent and speechless, first on the sublime and 
wonderful face of Progress, across whose radiant 
features is written in letters of purest gold, the 
grandest story ever told, the sweetest and most 
inspiring song ever thought of or sung; for there 
confronting him stands perfect and finished the 
mightiest, most stupendous, in fact, the last and 
most crowning piece of divine handiwork ever 
conceived and executed. 

We turn to the handsome, god-like youth and 
stand transfigured; lost in the contemplation of 
the sweetest, sublimest and most glorious picture 
ever painted bv even the hand of God himself, for 
there by his side stands a being— a near likeness 
or counter-part of himself —but one over whose 
glorious countenance heaven's own light shines 



SO THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE 

and radiates with a beauty and purity resplendent 
and unspeakable. 

A gloriously beautiful and perfect woman— 
the other half of and complement to man— his 
help meet and comforter, his companion and 
friend; his love, his joy, his pride. 

She, around and in whom all the pride, pleas- 
ures, ambitions and joys of his life concentrate 
and centers, and without which he was desolate, 
miserable and incomplete. Angels, with shining 
countenance and in glowing raiment, singing songs 
of joy and praise celestial, flit here and there, oc- 
cupied in their works of love and ministration to 
the happy pair, for woman and reproduction is 
born into the world. 

The demand of Love and Necessity through 
Progress, is at least complete, and as the scene 
begins to fade and vanish from our sight, there is 
laid gently into the fond and loving arms of 
earth's first mother a tiny flower, a human bud, 
an arabesque from heaven's own loom, the mind 
and heart of the almighty and creative infinite. 

"And one with him who parted from our sight— 
The first among the sinless sons of light. 
Hast thou beheld where passed the seamless dress, 
Or heard the still, small voice in storm and stress — 
The thunder moaning over moor and hill, 
That hushed as echo answered, Teace be still?' M 



CHAPTER X. 

4 'Not in vain the distant beacons; forward, forward let us 

range; 
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves 

of change/ ' 

That the bringing into being of creation, was 
a slow and tedious process of evolution, requiring 
endless ages and changes in the form and struct- 
ure of each and every individual atom or molecule 
contained therein, before brought to that stage of 
perfection in which we find it to-day, is, we be- 
lieve, a reasonable conclusion based as it is on 
common sense and reason, as well as also on the 
investigations and researches of modern science; 
and that man was no exception to this rule, we 
believe, to be as well sustained. 

That he is, and has been from the earliest mo- 
ment of his inception in the bosom of nature, a 
creature of progress only, we believe to be true, 
and that his creation is not, and never has been 
complete, and will perhaps never be, at least not 
until after limitless changes and journey ings on- 
ward and upward, he may at least reach that 



92 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE 

stage of perfection which is his final goal— con- 
scious and intelligent individuality or oneness with 
the great first cause. The home or essence of that 
love supreme, which is vital, intelligent, eternal, 
and out of which from necessity, all things at first 
was ushered or grew. 

That man was evolved stage by stage, and 
step by step, from earlier and lower forms of life, 
the natural product, so to speak, of that specific 
form or kind of evolution which is indiscribable 
and indefinable, but to which it is nevertheless so 
easy to grant the existence of both intelligence 
and design, we accept as fundamental truth. 

Also that having after countless ages and 
changes perhaps, in condition and environment, at 
last reached that promising stage in his develop- 
ment to which we may with safety attach the 
name of human, man's progress has since been 
more rapid, and that he has, and will under proper 
conditions, continue to steadily rise in the scale of 
creation, toward that perfection, love and life 
everlasting, which is his ultimate destiny, 

We have no means for reckoning or measur- 
ing the lengths or durations of time occupied by 
the several epochs or periods of creation; neither 
determining just what v/as the causes pre- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 93 

existing leading up to and finally producing as 
its immediate cause or effect, that result called 
man (Adam), and can, therefore, not attempt to 
analyze, define or explain it; but that he did not 
reach fully developed and mature manhood at one 
bound, we believe a fair deduction, considering 
the array of evidence brought by the scientific 
world to bear upon the theory of evolution. 

That woman was, however, the emination, 
outgrowth, other half of and, therefore, comple- 
tion and perfection of man, mental and physical, 
we concede and accept as fact. Acknowledging 
her as his natural follower or sequel on the plane 
of existence. 

The natural product and complement, born 
from the great longing, yearning, hungry heart of 
man for love and companionship. 

But man, spiritual, we see in that early period 
of his existence and development as we see him 
to-day; the still incomplete and unfinished product, 
or tapestry from the loom of nature— destiny. In- 
complete and imperfect, because holding inherent 
as possibilities within him, all the seeds or germs 
from which what we know as evil germinate and 
grow, and perceive Adam in our earliest acquaint- 
ance with and knowledge of him, as pure only in 



94 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE 

that sense of the term, or to that limited and 
qualified extent or degree which applies to child- 
ren before they have reached their full develop- 
ment and maturity; complete and conscious indi- 
viduality, or that stage of observation and experi- 
ence where they are able to distinguish between 
the elements known as right and wrong. 

That Eden was a state or condition of mind or 
spirit only, in which Adam lived while yet in this 
immature and undeveloped state of existence as 
man, and that then, as now, the God of Eden 
walked abroad in his garden— the pure, unconscious 
and adulterated heart and mind of innocent and 
inoffensive childhood. 

But as time went on and he began or contin- 
ued to expand and develop in all those faculties or 
abilities that was at first but rudimentary, and im- 
mature, that the time finally came when fully 
developed and mature manhood asserted itself, 
and he was adult in all those passions, instincts, 
desires and weaknesses that are a part of and be- 
long to his organization and make-up as man; and 
that he then, as now, conscious of some possible 
imperfection, weakness or error, shrank from the 
voice of the Lord, and sought to hide his naked- 
ness behind the garb, mantle, or costume, of fig- 
leaf or something similar. 



I 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 95 

But that he was only being carried onward 
and upward in the scale of creation is evidenced by 
the fact that in woman and reproduction was 
complete, perfect, and fulfilled man's creation and 
destiny on earth, to which the Lord himself gave 
sanction and approval, for "And God blessed them 
and God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply 
and replenish the earth and subdue it." 

Having reached which part of the discussion 
the question which again naturally rises for 
answer is, if man was not a miscarriage, mon- 
strosity or anomaly, a disappointment to his maker 
and disgrace to himself, to what end or purpose 
was the death of Jesus, and the life of Christ. 

Now, it is not the mission of this work to at- 
tempt to demonstrate or prove scientifically, the 
correctness of that theory which sees in evolution 
the solution of the problem of creation. 

Suffice it to say that to the evolutionist the 
proofs of the truth of such theory are abundant, 
satisfactory, and therefore conclusive, which, if 
true, it naturally follows that as man has from the 
beginning, been a creature of progress only, 
mounting slowly but surely higher and higher in 
the scale of creation, onward and upward as the 
weary ages came and went, that the story of the 



96 THE WORLD'S ROROSBOPE 

fall of man must of necessity be untrue, and his 
need of Redeemer, therefore, a creature of the 
imagination only, 

If Adam did commit some sin or error in the 
garden of Eden it must undoubtedly have been 
because of some pre-existing faultiness or imper- 
fection in his organization; in which case he surely 
could not be held as responsible in the matter, nor 
said to have fallen when he did sin; because 
already created so. For no deduction seems plain- 
er and more reasonable than that Adam was not 
morally or spiritualiy complete, or that none but a 
carnal man could or would in the first place have 
ever sinned. 

That the world of mankind has been for per- 
haps all the ages past, ruled and governed by 
false ideas, views and teachings with regard to 
the creation and status of man in the garden of 
Eden; as well as to the character and mission of 
Christ on earth, we believe to be the facts in the 
case. As we have never seen man in other than a 
fallen, or rather imperfect state of being, we can, 
therefore, not imagine him as laboring under the 
necessity for or being bettered by a sacrifice or 
atonement; least of all a vicarious one. 

That man did, however, need an examplar; 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 97 

an urger, a stimulator and inciter; something to 
finish, to lift and take him out of and away from 
the merely carnal and sensual side of his life, and 
place him on a higher and more elevated plane of 
existence; one to encourage, aid, stimulate, in- 
spire and sustain him; to point out and to show 
him the way; to teach him the nature, character 
and destiny of his being, as well as the powers r 
capabilities and possibilities, with which he was 
endowed, we believe to be true. And that that one 
was Jesus of Nazareth, in and through whom was 
made manifest on the grandest scale the world has 
ever seen, the God in man. 

Christ, or He whom "with the limitations re- 
moved that bind him in a human sense to a single 
personality means the eternal overflow or over- 
flow of God's love to man.'' He who taught us 
how to break down the barriers: the flaming sword 
of Eden. To reach and partake of the tree of 
eternal life, and the grandest, sweetest, noblest 
and sublimest character the world has ever known. 

That Jesus did not hang upon the cross an 
emblem of either God's love or wrath toward man, 
neither as a sacrifice or atonement for the sins of 
others, but as a shameful sacrifice to the ignorance, 
stupidity, doubt and vanity of a shameless world, 



98 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE 

we believe equally true, for that ' 'prophet hath 
never had honor at home" is, to the best of our 
knowledge, a saying that applies equally well to 
all nations and ages. 

Innovation and reform has ever been treated 
with spite, disdain and contempt. He who seeks 
to show the world something new or different 
from its accustomed methods and ways, especially 
in the higher realms of thought and spirit, must 
sooner or later bear the cross and wear the crown 
of martyrdom in one way or another. 

If one presumes or dares to be unlike the 
balance of their kind; to think or to act differently 
from the generality, they are a monstrosity, unnat- 
ural and abnormal, and should, therefore, be pun- 
ished. Treated with contumely and derision, and 
possibly with a cruel and ignominious death. If 
they are wiser spiritually, than we, especially 
more developed and learned in the occult, meta- 
physical and phychic,they are witches or in league 
with the devil. If they know things we do not 
know, it is evident that they are wicked or mis- 
taken, and if they attempt to show or teach us it 
becomes at once their eternal and unpardonable 
sin. 

All along the line of human history there 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 99 

have been instances and examples numerous to 
prove the truth of these statements; many a man 
and woman too far advanced, spiritually, for the 
merely carnal man to longer comprehend or un- 
derstand, has died the cruel death of the cross or 
stake because of such ignorance, want of compre- 
hension and development. 

Spiritual blindness, ignorance, doubt, stupidi- 
ty, intolerance, vanity and conceit sent Jesus of 
Nazereth to the cross, as it did also Jeanne d 'Arc 
to the stake, and would perhaps you and I, dear 
reader, to the gallows, were it not that a large por- 
tion of the world has, through tears and tribula- 
tions, sorrows and lamentations, blood and fire, 
reached an age or stage in its development and 
progress where toleration with spiritual knowledge 
and freedom, have at last throned and crowned 
themselves monarchs of the world. The grandest 
spiritual age the world has ever seen, and the soul 
awakening ready for the millennium. 

But Jesus came to an ignorant, unenlightened, 
spiritually undeveloped and uneducated world, "A 
voice crying in the wilderness the kingdom of 
God is at hand" His spiritual age in dawn, its 
flower in bloom and they knew it not. They had 
conceived only of a God without, rather than that 

re. 



100 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

which lives within, and could, therefore, neither 
see nor feel the larger spirituality, the divine 
Presence, which shown through this first normal 
and fully developed man. 

The great and eternal principles of love and 
justice and mercy which shrown through but was 
not limited or obscured by his otherwise feeble 
personality; and even to-day the most spiritual 
and enlightened age in the history of the world, it 
is difficult, if not impossible, for the spiritually 
undeveloped, unfolded, unenlightened and uncul- 
tivated, to see or comprehend the Christ, except 
in and through the Jesus personality or embodi- 
ment, and even then, only as one far above and in 
advance of anything they could ever hope to rise 
to or attain. 

Oh! ye of little faith. 

" Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise 
From outward things, whate'er you may believe. 
There is an inmost center in us all, 
Where truth abides in fullness. " 



CHAPTER XL 

"This it is to exchange weakness and impotence for 
strength; sorrows and sighings for joy; fear and forebod- 
ings for faith; longings for realization. " 

In imagination, the world of mankind has 
been, from time immemorial, accustomed to look 
away off into some far distant realm of space in 
the endeavor to pierce the veil of the absolute and 
see God, who, according to popular belief, lives on 
a golden throne in the midst of a golden city, and 
from that point, some way or some how, regulates 
and governs the affairs of man. 

God up in heaven, we find one of the first 
lessons taught inquiring childhood in christian 
homes the wide world over by parents and guardi- 
ans, themselves as ignorantly instructed, and thus 
the error goes on. 

At home and abroad, in sermon, song and 
prayer, we are told to look up to find the author 
and maker of the universe. Not up in the sense 
used by conscious inferiority to a superior being, 
but up in that sense of the word used to designate 



102 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

place and locality when speaking of earthly ob- 
jects and things. 

How few people, even those of knowledge and 
culture, can ever thoroughly disabuse their minds 
of the childish impressions thus received of God, 
as a being located at home, in a city whose size 
and dimensions can be measured in miles and fur- 
longs, somewhere in space. 

With what persistence will this erroneous idea 
and conception and deity stalk abroad in the mind, 
to threaten and browbeat judgment and reason in 
their frantic efforts to bring a realization of the 
true god-principle home to longing, hungry hearts. 

With what sense of desolation and black dis- 
pair has earnest, thoughtful souls of all ages and 
climes turned from this unreachable, unknowable 
God of fancy and fiction; only to find at home, 
within and around the sanctuary of their own be- 
ings, the knowledge of a Presence which casteth 
out fear and saturates with the very essence of 
that love, and peace, and harmony which rules the 
universe and which we call God. 

To find that the universe is a vast sanctuary, 
instinct with the vibrations of love, and joy, 
peace, beauty, harmony and life, and that the 
spiritual or regenerate heart of man is the throne 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 103 

and heart of God. That throne or Heart Divine 
of love and power, peace, beauty and harmony, 
which orders the stars and keeps the world revolv- 
ing in space, and the finding of which enables 
man to accomplish all things. 

To learn that the maker and ruler of this 
universe is all love, and mercy, and goodness, all 
majesty, power and might. That he is ever kind, 
loving, merciful and just; was never angry and 
has no inclination or tendency to punish or destroy. 

They learn that the god-man is he in whom 
the Christ is unfolded and awakened, and that he 
is a mighty being, all-powerful, all forceful and 
unlimited; because instinct with the power and 
love of this great eternal All. 

The world needs a home-coming, a realization 
and understanding of this eternally living and 
present Christ. 

This great unchanging, undying, inseparable 
and indivisible God, who is the first and the last ; 
the All in All. 

To recognize and feel to the fullest extent and 
depth of their beings, their filial relationship and 
intimany to him. To feel his presence and to hear 
his voice. 

To be alive and instinct with love and holy 



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desire to this divine essence or principle which 
lives within a part of and at home with man, fin- 
ishing and perfecting, when he opens the portals 
of his being to the inflowing of the love and knowl- 
edge and power divine which passeth understand- 
ing; and which lives in eternal plenty for all when 
they wait in the silence and solitude of their own 
soul, and will listen and heed his call. 

We hear a great deal of a dead Jesus, but lit- 
tle comparatively of this eternally living and PRE- 
SENT Christ. This one whose normal attitude is 
manifest in and expressive through all men. This 
Heart of Deity which lives within, and the find- 
ing and culture of which means so much to man. 
without which he is nothing, but with which he is 
everything. 

For however much we may believe in and 
grant the existence of the soul faculty or germ of 
immortality in man, the fact remains that he will 
never become a spiritually fully grown or adult 
being, without the growth and development of such 
faculty— such godly quality or principle. For the 
germ or seed of even an immortal soul is not the 
finished product— the bud is not the flower. 

The finest acorn is not the mighty oak within 
whose towering branches the fowl of the air may 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 105 

build their happy homes, and sing songs of thanks- 
giving and love to their maker. 

A faculty, or ability, will never become a prop- 
erty or quality; the germ will never become a creat- 
ure; the seed never a plant; the bud never a flow- 
er, and the acorn never an oak until the conditions 
or requirements upon which its individual develop- 
ment and growth depend, are unconditionally com- 
plied with and fulfilled. 

The human uterus, or that of the lowest of 
quadrupeds, will never become the parent bed or 
cradle from which will spring and grow the frailest 
infant of tree, plant, flower or herb; neither the 
finest forest or flower garden, be they never so 
fertile in all the various elements necessary to the 
growth and sustenance of luxuriant vegetation, 
become the loving mother, through whose respon- 
sive being will tremble and thrill with tidings of 
gladness and joy, the first faint quivering or beat 
of the tiny foetal heart. 

Why not? Because the very existence of any 
particular or specified kind, form or quality of life 
or growth depend wholly and unalterably upon 
the conditions that are harmonious with and con- 
ducive to the life and growth of such particular or 
specified kind, form or quality of life, growth or 
development. 



106 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE 

Every creature or thing in existence must, of 
necessity, have environment, and if it continue 
or grow culture, and that too, of the specific and 
characteristic kind or quality upon which its par- 
ticular and individual life, growth and develop- 
ment; nay, its very existence depend, else it can- 
not exist. And granting the existence of the soul 
faculty or germ in man, it of necessity follows as 
a law governing the existence and continuity of 
all things, that it must also receive culture; and of 
that kind, too, which is conducive to and meets 
the requirements that are necessary for its par- 
ticular and individual life, growth and develop- 
ment. 

Evil will not grow good, neither good evil, 
because in every essential foreign to and antago- 
nistic to each other. 

God and mammon can not dwell in the same 
place and at the same time, and nothing grow 
conscious, intelligent and individual immortality or 
oneness with God, but righteousness, because it is 
the only element or food on which the soul or 
spiritual germ or faculty in man can expand and 
develop; and if the soul or spiritual faculty is not 
developed there is nothing about man to take into 
eternity, or rather into conscious immortality. 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 107 

Carnal man has only one day; which is time 
only, and must make or lose while here. We are 
not one of those who have much confidence in the 
power and efficacy of the so-called death bed con- 
fession. 

Mansions and palaces have not within our ob- 
servation and experience been built that way, 
neither anything that was of service or utility. 

We believe in the good old-fashioned way- 
first the foundation, then row on row, tier on tier, 
until finally the roof is reached and the structure 
stands finished and complete. A slow, tedious, 
and possible laborious w r ork or labor, yet, never- 
theless, a beautiful and substantial one. 

It may be, however, that the omnipotent, all- 
knowing, seeing and merciful head or creator of 
the universe has stemed the tide of all ignorance, 
wickedness, slothfulness and want of opportunity 
and enlightenment, leading downward to retro- 
gression and possible oblivion, and placed lines or 
barriers beyond which we cannot descend or fall. 
We can at least hope that this is the case and that 
those who have as human, lost here, can there 
have still a spark of the divine, by which to pick 
up once more the thread or remnant of their spirit- 
ual talent or make-up, and pursue their journey 



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under new light, new training, new opportunity, 
new inspiration, new hopes, new blessings and 
new rewards. Indeed that all alike will be per- 
mitted or enabled to continue their growth toward 
that goal of illimitable, unthinkable and incon- 
ceivable perfection, that even eternity itself will 
be too short to ever attain or get a surfeit of. 

But while this would seem to be the most mer- 
ciful and common sense view of the case we 
would consider that as a dangerous doctrine which 
would teach us to ' 'waste our substance, " to idle 
and fritter away the palmy and acceptable days of 
this life, with its many opportunities and blessings 
in ignorant, improper or vicious living, lest, though 
we did not irredeemably and eternally lose or kill 
our conscious souls, we did that which was like- 
wise a great and never to be the less deplorable 
misfortune and folly; so warp, stint, circumscribe 
and cripple its capacity for expansion and enjoy- 
ment as to cause us at last to enter the pearly 
gates of the glorious future life only as babes, 
paupers and imbeciles. 

"Oh! I stand in the Great Forever, 

All things to me are divine ; 
I eat of the heavenly manna, 

I drink of the heavenly wine.'' 



CHAPTER XII. 

"As one comes into and lives continually ill the full, 
conscious realization of his oneness with the Infinite Life 
ane Power, then all else follows. 

As illustrating this point there is a beautiful' 
story comes to us, the author of which we do not 
know, but which is, nevertheless, here repeated in 
substance, if not in words, because so suggestive,, 
so powerful, so replete with; truth of the kind 
which we so wish to emphasize and enlarge upon. 

A lady, so the story runs, died and went to 
heaven. At the gate she was met by St. Peter, or 
some usher whose duty it was to show strangers 
the wonders and magnificence of that celestial and 
imperial city. As they journeyed along they 
talked pleasantly together, she questioning and he 
answering relative to the many and various beau- 
tiful sights and scenes along their route. Who 
lived here and there, in this mansion or that? 
What they had done of note or merit while on 
earth, and how now spending or making use of 
heaven and eternity, were the subjects under dis- 
cussion when suddenly a mansion more lovely, 
more beautiful; more magnificent, more wonderful 



110 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

in its glorious perfection than anything which the 
strangers eyes had yet feasted upon in even that 
vast city of glorious wonders and magnificent per- 
fections, burst on her astonished vision and sent a 
spasm of delight flashing and quivering across her 
countenance as it danced and thrilled in transports 
of joy and gladness along every fibre of her being, 
and dashed forth again in vehement question as, 
Ah! tell me quickly, I pray thee, whose is this 
mansion so delightful, so entrancing, and what 
great thing did they do while on earth to thus 
merit and obtain such joy, such grandeur here? 

Ah, Madam, answered her guide, as an extra 
gleam of satisfaction and pleasure stole over his 
placid, happy face, his was no great personage or 
name while on earth, neither did he any great or 
famous deeds while there. He was only a plain 
man with a plain name, and of plain, unostenta- 
tious acts and deeds. But out of his mite or pit- 
tance he fed the hungry and clothed the naked, 
picked up the fallen and soothed the broken heart- 
ed; was eyes to the blind and staff to the halt and 
maimed, and one in whose simple, unsophisticated 
heart there never lurked even the shadow of a 
wicked or cruel thought or deed toward man or 
beast. 

You will doubtless remember him, Madam, 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 111 

your old coachman, John Anderson. My ! my ! 
how you do surprise me, John Anderson?* Is 
it possible? Poor, simple John. Indeed I do re- 
member him. He always seemed such a never-do- 
well ; never saved or accumulated anything to 
speak of there. True, we didn't pay him much 
wages and he had a large family; but as you just 
remarked he was always hunting up the sick and 
distressed and unfortunate of all kinds and doing 
for them. Why, if a lame or hungry dog even 
came his way he would straightway leave his 
work, if it was not something of a like character, 
and go immediately to find relief and succor for 
the poor brute. And— thoughtfully— yes, indeed, 
John Anderson was a good man, but we were 
never people who paid much attention to such folk 
or how they got along. You see they wern't in 
our set, and you can readily understand how 
greatly surprised I am to find that this elegant 
mansion belongs to him. 

But, breaking off abruptly, gracious me, what 
is this I now see, as a hovel smaller and meaner 
than any structure in which John Anderson had 
ever lived in while on earth, flashed into view 
casting, as it seemed, a blur, a pall over the other- 
wise beautiful and perfect landscape of heaven, 
and rapidly becoming an eyesore, an offense, in 



112 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

fact, to the fastidious and aristocratic lady because 
of its utter want of genteel proportion and beauty. 
Its diminutive and homely size and shape; its lack 
of architectural skill and finish, indeed its general- 
ly shabby and poverty stricken looks and appear- 
ance that amazed and appalled her. 

That, answered her guide while never a feat- 
ure changed or altered its expression of placid joy 
and contentment, that, repeated he slowly and 
calmly, belongs to you, and fortunate indeed 
that it is so near the Anderson mansion, for that 
will throughout eternity furnish you a pleasant, a 
joyous spectacle, I may say, to at least rest and 
feast your eyes upon. 

But much of the real meaning of his speech 
was lost to the lady's understanding in a swish 
and whirl of the senses that all but robbed her of 
consciousness. Like a shock from an electric bat- 
tery, a surprise and horror that grasped and con- 
tracted every muscle and heart string, transformed 
every facial expression and all but paralized every 
limb took possession of her, and for a moment de- 
prived her of intelligence or speech, and she 
gasped and gurgled only in the vain effort to find 
utterance. 

Presently, however, belongs to me? To me, 
did I understand you sir? Did you say that this 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 113 

hut only belongs to me, gasped forth into coherent 
sound as sob after shook her frame and convulsed 
her features. 

That only is your eternal home, Madam, an- 
swered her guide calmly, as turning he was about 
to leave her presence. 

But, my dear sir, I can't live here; I assure 
you I cannot, I have always been accustomed to 
elegance and luxury, to the beauties arid splendors 
of earth, to carriages and equipages, to servants 
and liveries, and surely there is some misunder- 
standing, some mistake, some incomprehensible 
and well nigh fatal mistake. And as a brilliant 
idea flashed across her mind, Ah! I have it; this 
hut was probably meant for John Anderson, and 
his palace for me. 

But sorrowfully this time answered her guide. 
No, that cannot be. There is no misunderstand- 
ing here, no mistake ever happens or enters this 
pure realm of perfect and untrammeled justice. 
You built your house by your own conduct and 
deeds, and I assure you, Madam, it contains every 
piece of material you ever sent up. 

' * In the glorious tint of the morning. 
In the gorgeous sheen of the night, 

Oh ! my soul is lost in rapture, 
My senses are lost in sight,' ' 



CHAPTER XIII. 

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't 
be wrong whose life is in the right. ' ' 

Now our creed, if such it might be called, 
would ask of God no symbol other than that alone 
which speaks in the heart of man. The divine 
awakening or perfection of the soul through the 
Christ within. The All-truth or God in man, 
which is from everlasting to everlasting and needs 
no form or expression other than a full recognition 
and understanding by our spiritual consciousness. 

We worship at no shrine but that of Truth, 
believe in no temple but that of space, and rever- 
ence no time above another excepting the "now," 
only that is the accepted time, considering each 
moment a spiritual one and all alike sacred and 
holy when we remember how and why it came. 

To those, however, who reckon external ob- 
servances, forms and ceremonies useful, to such 
as they help to enlighten, exalt, stimulate and en- 
courage to spiritual effort and endeavor we would 
not say nay, believing in and accepting all the 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 115 

help we can get to aid and assist us along the way. 

Sacred music, especially, do we consider up- 
lifting, inspiring and ennobling, accepting it as a 
means of no small merit in spiritual improvement, 
culture and progress— a drawing near to and mak- 
ing ready for communion with the Lord. For in 
all things grand and beautiful we see God's smil- 
ing face and hear his kind and loving voice. 

Every Right is of God, and every Beauty and 
Perfection part of his qualities and attributes. It 
is not possible to feel a righteous impulse, think a 
beautiful thought or do a kind, loving, merciful or 
useful deed without partaking to that extent or 
degree of the righteousness, beauty and perfec- 
tion, of which is His the sum total: and anything 
which enables us to expand and open our beings 
to the influence of this inflowing and indwelling 
goodness and beauty draws us nearer to God, and 
He to us, because a means to an end, a means 
leading to our completion and perfection, and the 
fuller our vessel of such qualities the more at one 
and at home with their fount, the great, glorious 
and eternal God. 

A thousand, yea, ten thousand thousand 
lines or chords of communication reach out from 
the fountain of eternal and inexhaustible supply. 



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They are of everything that is good and beautiful, 
grand, glorious and perfect, and they flash and 
quiver and thrill around and in the heart and soul of 
man, brightening, warming, inspiring and uplift- 
ing when he will respond to their purifying and 
vivyfying influence, and take hold of them as the 
agents of his improvement and progress. The 
agents that in the first place created and now are 
seeking to perfect him. 

But the limb cut from the tree and thrown 
away will die quickly and naturally, because cut 
off from its parent, its source of supply. So with 
the human soul, starved for its proper food and 
nourishment— beauty and love, and tenderness, 
and mercy, and kindness, and compassion. The 
good and noble thoughts and impulses neglected, 
lost sight of and forgotten. 

Dear reader* don't forget when inspired by a 
noble thought or feeling that it is of God, or think 
when prompted to a deed of kindness, love or 
mercy for another that it is they alone who are 
benefitted. Remember that it is you who are 
drawing nearer to the God by thus partaking of 
his qualities and attributes, and, in proportion as 
you fail to take hold of these lines or cords of com- 
munication with the Eternal, in that proportion 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 117 

exactly are you carnal, and of earth only, for thus 
it is that not only do the deeds of commission, but 
those also of omission likewise damn and destroy. 

It is not belief, nor creed, but character that 
saves, and that great, strong, kind, loving, tender, 
yearning, hungry, honest and compassionate heart 
and soul of the great and noble humanitarian and 
so-called infidel, Robert G. Ingersoll, has a show- 
ing and record for eternity that no loud, canting, 
half-fledged and half-hearted so-called christian 
will ever have; for, whereas the child may not 
always know and recognize the parent the mother 
will know and claim her own, whether it be christ- 
ian, heathen or infidel, and that it is the disobedi- 
ence to and failure to cultivate and improve that 
which lives and speaks within you that will lose 
you your conscious soul. 

So live to your highest standard and concep- 
tion of right, be it that of a heathen only, if you 
expect to return to your maker a conscious, intelli- 
gent and immortal being. 

Remember there is ' 'survival for the fittest 
only," and that without spiritual progress your 
creation is not complete and you are not an im- 
mortal being. 

That the spiritually dead unborn or unawaken- 



118 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

ed is only a monstrosity and that nature wilt surely 
abort or miscarry her abnormal and imperfect 
work. 

True, we are not all kings or princes, neither 
intellectual or moral giants on this earth, and will 
probably not be over there. We are perhaps not 
able to mount to the top of the ladder at one 
bound, but according to our measure will be our 
supply and reward, and by doing the best possible 
with what we have, so will our ability and capacity 
grow until we are at home with the God who gave. 

So be not dismayed or discouraged if your pint 
measure of humanity will not hold a quart of di- 
vinity. Your Father is neither discouraged or 
angry with you, He alone knoweth the great de- 
sign or pattern that is being daily and hourly 
woven, some of whose parts are light, some dark, 
some feeble, some strong, but some time and some 
where the fabric will be finished, and the whole 
stand forth in a beauty and grandeur and perfec- 
tion undreamed of by finite mortal man. 

" There is no noble height thou cans ? t not climb; 
All triumphs may be thine in futurity, 

If whatso'er thy fault, thou dost not faint or halt; 
But lean upon the staff of God's security. ,, 



CHAPTER XIV. 

"When one recognizes this great fact and opens him- 
self to this Spirit and Infinite Wisdom, he then enters upon 
the road to the true education, and mysteries that before 
were closed now reveal themselves to him." 

Now we do not pretend to be able to reduce 
to a chemical and anatomical analysis, the science 
or laws governing the attraction or repulsion of 
things mental, spiritual or physical, nor to tell the 
whyfore of the magical and oftentimes fatal sym- 
pathy so well known to exist between things of 
various natures, characters and qualities. 

We do not comprehend the philosophy, the 
great fundamental and underlying laws operating 
and producing the manifestations of the so-called 
supernatural, or know why some people, independ- 
ent of all earthly sources of information and 
knowledge, see and hear, and know things that 
are not material, and that are sealed from and for- 
bidden to others, any more than we know why 
the law of average show one year more suicides in 
Prance and fewer murders in Germany, or a 



120 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

greater number of deaths in the United States, 
and fewer births in the British or Chinese empires. 

We cannot tell why the seed of the cucumber, 
planted in what is called the sign of the twins, 
will bear fruit, two and sometimes four at every 
joint, wiiile the vine by its side, w r ith the same 
soil and receiving the same sunshine and moisture, 
but planted under a different sign will not. 

We are not authority on why rain falling on 
the newly blown cotton blossom will blast and 
keep it from maturing, neither why an Irish 
potato carried in the pocket of the sufferer will 
sometimes cure rheumatism. 

We do not know why by concentration and 
meditation the affinities of the body and mind are 
changed into sickness or health, pleasure or pain, 
grief or joy, ugliness or beauty, and even our ex- 
ternal surroundings and environments at times 
completely and thoroughly changed and made 
over. 

These and many others are subjects on which 
endless theories and speculations have been ad- 
vanced and ponderous volumes written, and yet 
the great and eternal why and whyfore; the ulti- 
mate relation of the mind to the body, the spirit- 
ual to the physical, and all things connected there- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 121 

with and their influence over the same for good or 
evil, is deeply shrouded in gloom and mystery, but 
it is certainly too great to be ignored in the con- 
sideration of the various elements and agents by 
which the human being is and may be affected. 

We know, beyond the peradventure of a doubt, 
that under some circumstances the influence of 
mind over body and of one mind over another 
mind surpasses that of all other agencies that are 
or can be brought to bear upon them, and instances 
are not wanting to prove the trance or hypnotic 
influence often exerted by one person over an- 
other, even for evil, for one wicked person in a 
neighborhood has been known to ruin many 
people. 

That the mental influence, both of ourselves 
and others, may and do, under some conditions 
and circumstances shape, modify and even entirely 
transform our natures and facial expressions as 
well as our external situations and circumstances, 
social, financial and otherwise, we know to be as 
true, as that the contact or application of certain 
other actives to passives will invariably produce as 
certain, invariable and uniform effects or results; 
and that it is true that within certain limitations 
we get what we build, and that effort and result 



122 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

invariably correspond, mental and physical. That 
we can sow thought and reap action, sow action 
and reap character, and that to sow thought, action 
and character is to reap circumstances and sur- 
roundings. 

With the Psalmist we can truthfully and hon- 
estly say we are fearfully and wonderfully made, 
when we realize our powers and abilities and learn 
to wait and hold fast to the lines of our supply, 
for whatever we wish to accomplish or enjoy. 

True, we are not always free to do just as we 
choose, because acted upon by others and by every 
element in nature, universal mind and sympathy 
governing the whole; but sooner or later the cur- 
rents or circles of sympathy will come round in 
our favor, and we, if magnetic and attractive to 
that only which is for our good, will find ourselves 
in harmonious relationship and contact with the 
object of our need and desire. The lid lifted from 
the fount, drawn from it by our attitude, and our 
vessel filled to overflowing. 

The limitations are these only, there is some 
great infinite plan being worked out and fulfilled, 
and while each and every being or thing is born 
and lives within circles or radius of planetary or 
fatherly love and influence, these are of different 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 123 

orders, classes and varieties, each having quali- 
ties, properties and characteristics that are pecu- 
liar and characteristic of themselves alone. 

They are not within bonds of sympathy and 
do not affiliate or amalgamate with those of each 
and every other or different order, class or variety. 
They are possible opposites and consequently irre- 
deemably antagonistic, unlawful and therefore, 
denied happy and pleasurable contact one with 
another. 

The plan would otherwise be interfered with 
and God's objects or purposes become a conglom- 
eration, an accumulation or ocean of contrarities, 
confusions and contradictions only, and while we 
are the highest order or class of beings in the 
universe, we do not all belong to the prince or mil- 
lionaire families, have no monopoly on the brains 
and talents and cannot rule and govern the princi- 
palities, kingdoms and nations of earth, or have at 
all times all the benefits and pleasures of the uni- 
verse dancing attendance to our exclusive and 
individual wishes and commands, but all circles 
are alike good because our Father was never the 
author and maker of any thing evil. 

He is the fount of supply, the prince of just 
rulers, and lives and governs within all because 



124 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

filling all. He knows what is best and has pre- 
pared abundantly for our happiness, for within 
the compass— the sympathetic connections and at- 
tractions of each and every circle— is held Life, 
Health, Wealth, Peace, Beauty, Prosperity and 
Happiness abundant, sufficient and to spare, for 
each and every being within the radius of its 
power and influence when we hold ourselves in 
relationship, attractive and receptive to its in- 
coming and inflowing influence and benefits only. 

Our bodies and minds are like a house in 
which we live with the doors and windows open, 
some to the north, some to the south, some to bad, 
some to good. 

The ether around us is pregnant with the 
power and influence of both God and mammon, 
good and evil. One carnal and temporal, the 
other spiritual and eternal. 

We stand as a magnet; as the north or south 
pole to the needle of the compass, at these portals 
or loopholes of our beings and by our attitude in- 
vite and welcome the kind of spirit we would en- 
tertain, and thus shape or mould our character 
and destiny for good or evil. 

Now, while we do not believe in the property, 
quality or quantity known as evil as an absolute, 



Life on an upper plane 125 

separate and independent entirety or existence, 
presupposing all things good and conceiving of 
evil only as the dependent or relative property 
of things; that there is, however, an element in 
existence by which all things material are, or can 
be exercised and influenced detrimental and pre- 
judicial; and which, for the sake of lucidness and 
convenience of thought and expression we must 
still call evil in the future as in the past, we con- 
cede and accept as fact. 

But as all things created have their individual 
and specific uses and purposes in the great plan of 
creation, each the loved and loving child of the 
parent source from which it sprang, any given or 
specified creature, object or thing, can be said to 
be evil only to that extent and in accordance with 
the influence exerted while in contact or connec- 
tion with any other particular and specified creat- 
ure, object or thing. Hence, it follows that to be 
wholly and absolutely evil would be to exercise 
uniformly and continuously an equal, evenly bal- 
anced and unwavering influence, detrimental and 
harmful on each and all other things with which 
coming into contact, and as to the best of our in- 
formation and knowledge there is no creature or 
thing in existence known to do this, then there 



126 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

can not, in its strictest and most absolute sense of 
the term, be said to be any such quality or element 
in existence, only as before stated, to that limited 
and qualified extent or degree, and in harmony 
and accordance with the influence exercised upon 
the creature, object or thing acted upon. 

Now the quality called good is like unto a 
piece of cloth of which one side is say changable 
red and green, and the other blue and purple. 
Both sides the same material and cloth, but given 
its particular hue or color by the way in which we 
hold or look at it, and by its influence or impres- 
sion on the particular object or thing with which 
coming into contact. 

A war may be a great benefit or good to a 
conquering nation, while as great and correspond- 
ing a calamity or evil for the vanquished one. 

A heavy sleet and snow storm in the late 
spring may be a great evil by killing all the fruit 
and early vegetation in a particular section of 
country, yet, nevertheless, a great good by putting 
an extra season in the ground that insures the 
luxuriant growth of other and later crops. 

All the greatest and most beneficial element 
or forces in nature are, likewise, under certain 
circumstances and conditions, its greatest so-called 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 127 

evils— air, water, wind, etc.— yet who would pre- 
sume or dare to call them wholly and absolutely 
evil, because of their great and unequaled destruc- 
tive properties and powers. 

Hence a thing can be said to be either good or 
evil only in exact proportion to the influence ex- 
ercised on other objects or things. 

Thus honey is almost a deadly poison to some 
persons while a great and nutritive edible or table 
delicacy to others. 

The wearing of the opal is said to bring "bad 
luck" to all not born under the signs of the zodiac 
known as Aquarius and Libra, and governed by 
Saturn, Uranus and Venus, while ''the amber at- 
tracts all things to it but the garden basil and 
things fat or smeared with oil, between the which 
and it there is unconquerable autipathy and 
hatred." 

The giving of a knife or other sharp instru- 
ment by one person to another is believed by many 
to cut the bonds of unison, love and friendship be- 
tween them, and the Topaz to cool and drive all 
love excesses with hatred from its presence. The 
Amethyst despises drunkenness. While coral is a 
well known preservative against poison and if 
worn around the necks of children it enables them 



128 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

to withstand many diseases to which childhood is 
heir. 

Why these things? What is the great and 
mysterious meaning or reason for such causes and 
effects remain a great and unfathomable secret in 
the bosom of the great and unexplored parent who 
gave them birth? We can only look on, guess and 
conjecture, for it is well known that the affinities, 
attractions and sympathies, as well as counter at- 
tractions and antipathies of all things organic and 
inorganic, material and immaterial exist independ- 
ent of and in spite of the fact that we are not able 
to comprehend, explore or unravel them. 

All creation is a great circle or endless chain 
of circles and systems of circles, each revolving 
independent in its own orbit and on its own mis- 
sion, dispensing force, power and energy, each 
of its nature and kind, to every creature or thing 
within the radius or circle of its power and influ- 
ence, ruling and governing, and in its turn being 
ruled and governed by each and all others, and 
creating and moulding that only for which the con- 
ditions are all normal and harmonious; out of which 
condition evil may be said to have at first grown, 
and God as the sole and only originator and creator 
of such condition been directly responsible. 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE. 129 

In which of the first events, and viewed from 
previous standpoints, we would still conceive of 
man as the ignorant tool or vassal of pre-arranged 
or pre-existing circumstances or conditions only, 
and therefore irresponsible; while at the same 
time maintaining our original ground, that God 
did not create evil, and that nothing exists but 
good excepting that only which had thought of or 
emination from the mind of man alone. 

In seems that he only, of all created beings, 
recognizes and believes in evil, and that he may, 
therefore, become evil, and to almost any extent 
because dwelling upon and harboring it. 

Others of creation know no evil, and there- 
fore do none. They cleave to that only with which 
they are by the bonds of sympathy connected or 
united, and shun or resist that between them and 
whom there is not affinity, sympathetic connection 
and attraction. 

Thus oil and water will not mix, yet neither 
are, therefore, evil; both have affinities or sympa- 
thies for which they are good. 

Now, as viewed from man's standpoint, a 
thing is or becomes a good if sympathetic with, 
but evil if antagonistic to him. He, as a reasoning 
creature, was, in the first place, able to think of 



130 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE. 

or to imagine something different from an oppo- 
site to, or reverse side of good; and his order or 
quality of mind such that having found something 
that did not affiliate or amalgamate with him, he 
at once conceived tie idea that something was 
wrong with that same object or thing, and set 
about trying to investigate and explore it. 

He looked at and tried it this way and that; 
thought of and pondered over, meditated and rea- 
soned with, fondled and caressed, inspected and 
criticised, and finally despised and condemned, 
while still and withall loving and hugging it to his 
ignorant, untutored heart in the vain effort to 
make peace and beauty, joy and harmony between 
them. 

Thus came evil, the outgrowth of man's ignor- 
ance and vanity, into the world. For the longer 
and harder he pondered over and labored with it 
the bigger and stronger and mightier grew the 
will NOT, that emination or verdict from oppos- 
ing factions known to man as evil, and occupying 
the same relationship to such factions as the report 
to the gun, or the noise and smoke to the battle; 
neither dangerous within themselves, but having 
the ability to finally drown or hide and obscure all 
else if persisted in and continued. Which is ex- 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 131 

actly the case with men to-day. The world is 
burdened with an atmosphere of evil thought and 
desire, hence we would say guard even your 
thoughts, cease to think of or tamper with evil, 
if you wish to stop creating or producing it. 

Leave God's work alone. All of which he is 
the author and maker is good, in its time, in its 
place, and handled in the right way. That which 
speaks within you when you will listen and heed, 
is GOOD and right; but don't outrage, don't try to 
force or drive it into contact, sympathy or harmo- 
ny with something to which it is antagonistic or 
opposed. If you do the smoke will rise, and you 
will be obscured and enveloped until perhaps even 
God himself will never see you, and you will be 
ruined; utterly and completely lost and forgotten 
in the confusion— the grime and smoke of battle. 

In view of the foregoing qualifications and 
statements we do not consider it necessary to 
dwell at any greater length on the so-called magic 
properties of things material and physical, imma- 
terial or spiritual. Neither to endeavor to further 
explain or show how and why both good and evil 
may and do follow or ensue the perfectly natural 
consequence or result of the operation of natural 
laws alone. 



1» THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

That anything, and everything, with which 
one is harmonious and congenial becomes to them 
a charm or talisman of "good luck" that can and 
will, to the extent of its individual power and in- 
fluence, bring peace and pleasure, joy, happiness 
and prosperity only, we conceive to be self-evident, 
as also, that the reverse is true of all those ob- 
jects or things with which we are not on terms of 
sympathy and good fellowship. 

We have only to bear in mind that miracles 
are such to the uninitiated and unawakened only, 
and that signs and wonders have always followed 
in the footsteps of those who lived nearest to God 
and nature. 

That the greatest necessity of mankind to-day 
is to realize to the depth of his being what the 
true god-man is; what his powers and capabilities; 
what it means to be in touch with and subservient 
to the thou of his existence, for then only do "all 
things work together for good to those who love 
and serve God," 

Having reached which part of the discussion, 
it is now our intention to give in the following in- 
closed chapter of this work a plan or rather a form 
or method for concentration or soul culture peculiar 
and chaatacteristic, but the beauty and efficacy of 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 133 

which we know to be true, because bringnig in its 
wake to all who practice its instructions and teach- 
ings, every GOOD of which they can possibly have 
need, while as persistently expelling all evil by its 
blessed and far reaching beneficial power and influ- 
ence; and by the use of which some of the great- 
est and best, as well as most celebrated of" stu- 
dents and philosophers, chemists, naturalists, psy- 
chomists, astrologers, alchemists, sorcerers and 
performers and explainers of the wonderful and 
mysterious of both ancient and modern times- 
principal of which was the great and distinguished 
Albertus Magnus— are said to have performed 
some of their most wonderful feats of the sublime 
and miraculous, making the sick well, the lame 
to walk, the blind to see, the deaf to hear and 
the dumb to talk, as well as the poor rich, the 
homely handsome, the silly wise, and the old, to 
all intents and purposes, young. 

"In the gleam of the shining rainbow 

The Father's Love I behold, 
As I gaze on its radiant blending 

Of crimson and blue and [god. " 




"Every day's a fresh beginning, 

Every morn is the world made new; 

You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, 
Here is a beautiful hope for you, 
A hope for me and a hope for you. ' ' 





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CHAPTER XV. 

That man has a tendency to become what he 
wishes and believes himself to be is, we conceive a 
proposition past doubt or controversy, the reasons 
for which are we believe as obvious. 

He is the Son, the likeness of or image of his 
Father, the Almighty who thought of and willed 
this great universe and all it contained into exist- 
ence, and endowed man with those self- same 
faculties or qualities of his own known to us as 
thought and will power, and to which, as regards 
man, it was his divine will that all other things 
are or could become also obedient and subservient 

The limitations being those of a nature or 
character that bind man and his operations, to and 
within the realm or sphere of his individual exist- 
ence or being only, but, nevertheless, leave him 
therein the sole and only Lord and Master— the 
architect and builder of his own character and 
destiny. 

Great and glorious privilege and blessing, yet 
tremendous and fearful responsibility, for as we 
sow so shall we also reap. 



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That thought and will, wish and desire do 
create and supply, regulate and govern every ele- 
ment or factor within the compass or environment 
of man, as well as the entire universe beside, is 
undoubtedly true, as also that within a given 
radius or circle man's power and ability to draw 
all contained therein to himself are limited by his 
slothfulness and ignorance only. 

Our Father is one of munificence and plenty. 
His great storehouse holds in abundance all the 
elements from which to construct and build any- 
thing of which man can possibly conceive or have 
need, when we learn by our attitude— our thought 
and deed— to sow the seed and thereby set in op- 
eration the chain of circumstances or events har- 
monious and sympathetic, that finally build even 
the seemingly impossible into practical and living 
realities. 

When we learn that to yearn and long, and 
hunger, and thirst, ardently and earnestly, doing 
all in our power to aid and to help ourselves, that 
then are God's promises made good, and by or 
through the virtue and operation of law governing 
the supply and distribution of all things are 
brought together into one active, living and resist- 
less force, all the elements in the universe that are 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 139 

required or necessary for the accomplishment of 
such object or purpose, 

For, however much the statement may be 
doubted or questioned by some, the fact remains 
that there is nothing in the universe of which the 
human mind can conceive or the heart long for 
and desire but what has its accomplishment and 
fulfillment some time or some place, if longed and 
labored for according to God's methods and God's 
plans— for all good things are his natural parts 
and attributes, flowing direct from his divine pre- 
sence in and around us when we, by our conduct, 
open the door and welcome it in. 

Hence, again w r e would say guard your 
thoughts as well as your conduct. Be as much as 
possible with the bright, the happy, the cheerful 
g,nd the pure. Select that only with which you 
are harmonious and congenial; that which gives 
you joy and pleasure, and peace unalloyed and un- 
sullied by doubt, or fear, or pain. 

We do not mean by this to close your eyes, 
your mind, your heart or your purse, to the calls of 
the unfortunate, the suffering or the erring, but 
to see in them as much as possible only the good 
and beautiful, remembering that to recognize the 



140 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

Jesus quality or ability in man is to aid and assist 
him to develop and unfold the Christ. 

Look carefully and scrutinizingly within and 
rest assured that if that still small voice, your best 
monitor and guide approves that all is well, but if 
not beware, for something is radically and vitally 
wrong; for while I is a great and mighty being, 
endowed with wonderful and far reaching powers 
and capabilities, to reach the perfection of its 
growth and development it must first become 
obedient and subservient to the far greater and 
mightier thou, the completion and perfection of 
its existence. In which case man then becomes 
what he should be, a real god-man, and, therefore, 
a mighty invincible and irresistible being. 

When using the prayer and talisman direc- 
tions for the making of which is herewith given, 
remember that if you so will you are as magnetic 
sympathetic and attractive to the adverse as to the 
beneficial influences around you. 

Therefore go into a quiet, comfortable place 
and free your mind as much as possible from every 
burden or worry, trouble, hate, anxiety and fear. 
Set the glass in position in front of you, and sit in 
an easy, comfortable position yourself, while look- 
ing steadfastly into the depths of and behind those 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 141 

eyes which gaze and reflect back into your's from 
the depth of the mirror. 

Repeat three times in succession the invoca- 
tion or prayer which has been first memorized, and 
written in your own or nearest relative's hand 
writing and placed in the back of the glass. 

Put down the carnal and raise the spiritual. 
Think of the God that is within and around you. 
How mighty, how great, how good, how loving, 
how merciful and how just? 

Think earnestly and prayerfully of his attri- 
butes, which are Life and Health, and Youth and 
Beauty, and Love and Joy, and Happiness, Suc- 
cess and Prosperity, to all of which you are heir, 
holding the vessels to be filled from the elements, 
which are continually in, around and with you, and 
for which you are the natural affinity or magnet, 
when you will reach out after, and by the force 
and power of every faculty and ability at your 
command draw them to you, or become receptive 
to their in-coming and in-dwelling power and 
influence, 

Bear in mind that when good comes in evil 
goes out, and that to the extent or degree of its 
inflowing to that extent or degree exactly is all 
evil purged out, or washed from you and God or 



142 THE WORLDS HOROSCOPE 

Good only made master and ruler of your life and 
destiny. 

And now, to any who doubt the thorough 
reliability and unfailing efficacy of this plan or 
means to a righteous end we would only say, sus- 
pend your judgment and try it from fifteen to 
thirty minutes, or longer, each succeeding day for 
three months, and then pronounce sentence from 
your fund of knowledge and benefit obtained by 
its use. 




Instructions for Making the Magic Glass. 



Decipher and write on clean, white paper, 
with your own hand, or by that of a near and 
loved relative or friend, the powerful invocation 
or prayer (the key or interpretation to which is 
also appended) found on page 146 of this volume. 
When finished choose from among the ribbons 
contained in this book, (all of which have received 
for this express use and purpose a special magic 
and occult treatment or preparation known only to 
the author of this work), that one or more which 
are your particular and individual astral colors, • 
and together with three hairs taken from the 
crown or your head, inwrap both ribbon and hair, 
by one folding of the paper on which the prayer 
has been previously written. 

After this first folding proceed to fold again, 
the two loose corners this time, diagonally across 
the paper until, when finished, the whole assumes 

• A list of the astral colors will be found on page 148 
of this volume. 



144 THE WORLD'S HOROSCOPE 

the form and shape of a wedge or triangle, in the 
three corners of which you will now one name at a 
time, and in a place proceed to write the name of 
the Trinity— Father, Son, Holy Ghost— finishing 
this part of the process by inscribing in the center 
of the wedge the word Amen, and under this your 
own first or christian name. Now turn it over and 
write or copy on the opposite side of this magic 
wedge or talisman, the symbol with its corres- 
ponding letters, found on the seal cover of this 
chapter. 

When all is complete, prepared and finished 
according to the above rules and instructions, 
remove the back or rear covering from any plain 
mirror, (preferably about one foot square), place 
the talisman therein and again inclose or seal. 

Now make a solution of garden rue (either 
powdered or whole leaves), and rain or soft water 
one teaspoonf ul to the pint. Place in a bottle and 
let stand ready for use. 

Wash the glass before using therewith, pol- 
ishing carefully afterwards with a clean, soft 
cloth and occasionally thereafter, especially when 
cloudy and needing to be cleaned or cleared. If 
going on a journey or beginning some uncertain or 
hazardous undertaking or enterprise where it 



LIFE ON AN UPPER PLANE 145 

would be inconvenient or unwise to carry the full 
sized mirror with you, the talisman may be re- 
moved from the back of this glass and placed in a 
pocket or smaller sized one. Or, failing to find 
one suitable, then for the time being (as a tempo- 
rary measure only) wear the talisman without the 
glass in any convenient place about your person or 
clothing. 

If you have an individual or special wish or 
need not given mention or utterance in the follow- 
ing invocation you can from time to time after 
having made use of the invocation three times in 
succession, as before instructed, invoke with your 
own thought and in your own language the good 
powers and forces by whom you are now surround- 
ed for a compliance with your wishes, never 
doubting that so long as it is within the realms of 
the good and just that failure is impossible and 

SUCCESS is CERTAIN. 




146 



Prayer or Invocation. 

Nz Gbuifs J csjoh nz ifbsu up Uiff Uipv 
xip bsu uif Hvjef Dpngpsufs boe Tubz pg nz 
tpvm jo bmm jut ujnf pg xfbtloftt boe ebohfs 
bcjef xjui nf opx boe gpsfwfs-npsf. Uipv xip 
bsu uif fncpejnfou pg fswfz hppe boe qfsqfdu 
hju gmpx jo boe bpvoe boe vqgspo nf. Mfu 
opu nz tpvm cf uspvcmfe ops nz ifbsu ejtnbzfe 
cvu pwfspmf njof fofnjdft cz uif qpxfs pg uiz 
sjhiufpvt boe fufobsm xpse. Bmm jo Bmm bsu 
Uipv boe J pg Uiff boe oxp cz uif hsbdf boe 
nbkftuz pg uiz obnf boe qpxfs J esbx qbsublf 
boe ipme pg uiz mpwjoh bepsbcmf boe hsbdjpvt 
cpvotz boe cfdpnf pof xjui Uiff jo Mjgf Mpwf 
Zpvui Cfbvuz Qsptqfsjuz boe Ibqqjoftt opx boe 
sgf wpf s — npsf . Bnf o. 



147 



Interpretation of Prayer. 

Write in a straight row, one beneath the 
other, the letters of the alphabet. 

By its side write another row, dropping one 
letter lower down (putting a. opposite b., b. oppo- 
site c, etc.) until the second row has been com- 
pleted to z., which last letter of the second row 
will now be placed opposite the first letter (a) in 
the first row. 

Proceed now to spell out the words of the 
prayer, using the letters of the first line of alpha- 
bet for the spelling of the words as found therein, 
and the letters of the second line or row as its 
interpreter. 

Thus, for example: The first word in the invo- 
cation, viz: becomes my, because n-m and z-y are 
opposite each other in the two perpendicular lines 
of the alphabet, and so on with all others con- 
tained therein. 



148 



THE ASTRAL COLORS AND DATES OF THEIR SUPREMACY 



Dec. 21, Jan. 19— Garnet, brown, silver gray, 
black. 

Jan. 20 to Feb. 18— Blue, pink and nile green. 

Feb. 19 to March 20-White, pink, black and 
emerald green. 

March 21 to April 19— White and rose pink. 

April 20 to May 19— Red and lemon yellow. 

May 20 to June 20— Red, white and blue. 

June 21 to July 21— Green and russett brown. 

July 22 to August 21— Red and green. 

August 21 to September 22— Gold and black, 
speckled with blue dots. 

September 23 to October 22— Black, crimson 
and light blue. 

October 23 to November 21— Golden brown 
and black. 

November 22 to December 20— Gold, red and 
green. 



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